EII AnnualReport09

Administering Institution
ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure (EII)

School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
The University of Queensland
Brisbane Queensland 4072 Australia
Tel: (61) 7 3365 1649

Fax: (61) 7 3365 3248
Email: eii@eii.edu.au
Web: http://www.eii.edu.au
Member Institutions
The following 21 leading research institutions from across Australia are member organisations of the EII Research Network:
University Participants
The University of Queensland University of Technology Sydney
Monash University Griffith University
The University of Sydney Queensland University of Technology
The University of New South Wales University of South Australia
The Australian National University University of Wollongong
Edith Cowan University University of Tasmania
The University of Melbourne The University of Newcastle
Victoria University Swinburne University of Technology
Macquarie University
Other Participants
CSIRO ICT Centre Microsoft Research Asia
National ICT Australia Ltd SAP Australia Pty Ltd
Membership
Over 2009, EII membership rose from 896 participants to 972 – an increase of 8%. EII’s participants are made up
of 53 core members, 512 associate members, 67 Early Career Researchers, 315 PhD students, 14 masters and 11
undergraduate. There are 200 members from overseas and 772 from Australia including: 250 NSW, 201 QLD, 199 VIC,
58 ACT, 27 TAS, 21 SA, 14 WA and 2 NT. A total of 67 participants are from industry, 84 from government departments
or government funded organisations, and 821 from universities.
ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure: Annual Report 2009

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ........................................................................................................................... 3
GOALS & OBJECTIVES ........................................................................................................................... 4
RESEARCH PROGRAMS & PRIORITIES ..................................................................................................... 4
CONTRIBUTION TO NATIONAL BENEFIT ................................................................................................. 5
FINANCIAL STATEMENT ......................................................................................................................... 6
MANAGEMENT ..................................................................................................................................... 8
2009 QUANTITATIVE KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS ........................................................................ 10
2009 ACTIVITIES .................................................................................................................................. 11
Expression of Interest: ARC COE for a Data Rich Society ......................................................................... 11
International Experts ................................................................................................................................ 11
Member Research Visits & Seminars ....................................................................................................... 18
PhD Fellowships ....................................................................................................................................... 19
Publications .............................................................................................................................................. 24
PhD School ............................................................................................................................................... 26
Prizes ........................................................................................................................................................ 28
Projects ..................................................................................................................................................... 29
2nd Sino‐Australia IT Research & Education Summit ................................................................................ 29
Sponsorships ............................................................................................................................................ 32
Taskforces ................................................................................................................................................. 35
Travel Subsidies ........................................................................................................................................ 40
Workshops ............................................................................................................................................... 41
2010 STRATEGIES & ACTIVITIES ............................................................................................................ 43
APPENDICES ........................................................................................................................................ 46
Appendix A: Members, Associate Members & Students ......................................................................... 46
Appendix B: Institutional Contacts ........................................................................................................... 68
Appendix C: Web Server Statistics ........................................................................................................... 70
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Appendix D: Centre Research Program – ARC COE for a Data Rich Society ............................................. 73
Appendix E: List of Participants – ARC COE for a Data Rich Society ......................................................... 76
Appendix F: Delegates – PhD School ........................................................................................................ 78
Appendix G: Feedback – PhD School ........................................................................................................ 80
Appendix H: Program – PhD School ......................................................................................................... 82
Appendix I: Delegates – 2nd Sino‐Australia IT Research & Education Summit .......................................... 84
Appendix J: Program – 2nd Sino‐Australia IT Research & Education Summit ............................................ 86
Appendix K: Program – Workshop on Location Based Social Networks .................................................. 89
Appendix L: MSRA Newsletter – Workshop on Location Based Social Networks ..................................... 90
Appendix M: Feedback – Colloquium on Data Sciences ........................................................................... 93
Appendix N: Delegates – Interacting with Information Technologies Workshop .................................... 95
Appendix O: Feedback – Interacting with Information Technologies Workshop ..................................... 96
Appendix P: Feedback – Winter School Mathematical & Computational Biology ................................... 97
Appendix Q: 2009 Research Output of EII Core Members ....................................................................... 98

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sponsoring and promoting such research

collaborative activities, as most of these events
involve multiple institutions crossing many
This 2009 annual report for the Australian
boundaries and require funding that becomes
Research Council (ARC) Research Network in
increasingly limited for this purpose at this scale.
Enterprise Information Infrastructure (EII) is the
Many EII members are active researchers,
fifth and final annual report of EII. EII is a major
receiving substantial research funding from other
national Information and Communictaions
ARC schemes and other sources to work on
Technology (ICT) research collaboration initiative
individual research projects. The relatively small
funded by the ARC and its 21 institutional
amount of funding available to EII has served as
members including 17 Australian Universities,
highly effective leverage to improve the efficiency,
CSIRO, NICTA, Microsoft and SAP. It received
impact and visibility of the research projects of EII
funding of 1.6M from the ARC through a
members. The role of EII has been many different
competitive process for the period of 2004 ‐ 2009,
things to many different researchers, depending
with matching funding from all participating
on the stage in their career. For established
institutes. Due to the late start (in 2005) and many
researchers, EII has helped gain great leverage for
ongoing activties, we decided, as reported last
their research, but for many RHD students and
year, to run EII in full capcity to the end of 2010.
ECRs, EII simply plays a vital, essential and
EII is very proud to report that, after five years in irreplaceable role in the early stage of their
operation, the total number of its individual research career. Activities such as EII PhD schools,
members has grown from 170 in 2004 to 972 at ECR workshops, inbound and outbound research
the end of 2009. EII is particulay proud of exchange opportunities, and internships in leading
engaging and supporting early‐career researchers industry labs (such as Microsoft Research and SAP
(ECR) and research higher degree (RHD) students Research), have inspired and helped many future
in Australia, with a current complement of 67 and leaders of Australia’s ICT research and industry.
340 ECR and RHD members respectively. While
EII will be fully operational in 2010, thanks to our
the majority of EII members are from Australian
strategic reserve of ARC funding, a large amount
universities, we also have over 300 members from
of cash contributions from participating research
overseas, industry and the public sector. Together
organizations and the commitment of our
with all our institutional and individual members,
enthusiastic members. I take this opportunity to
EII has travelled a long way over the last five years
thank all EII members, especially the Steering
towards achieving our goal to improve the quality
Committee members. Without their full support
and impact of Australia’s research in enterprise
and dedication it would have been impossible for
information infrastructure. EII’s vision to establish
EII to achieve what can only be described as
a real collaboration network for ICT researchers in
remarkable. With their participation, a range of
this country has now become a reality, providing
activities have already been planned for 2010,
an active forum and a supporting platform for
including a PhD school and ECR workshop in June
researchers and research groups across
and the last Annual General Meeting in December
institutional and geographical barriers to share
to celebrate what we have achieved together and
ideas and concerns, to benefit from other people’s
to discuss the ways we can maintain the
knowledge and connections, to pool limited
momentum and to continue our collaboration
resources, to train and support RHD students, to
beyond the ARC‐funding period of EII.
riase the profile of Australian ICT research on the
international stage, and to promote high quality In this document we report the Network
ICT research. Today, EII acts as a critical part of the governance and management structures, research
social fabric of Australia’s ICT research. For this, programs and priorities, goals and objectives, and
we thank the ARC for its vision to establish our annual budget. Details about our activities and
research networks and to fund EII. achievements in 2009, members’ feedback for our
activities, and members’ research output are also
During 2009, EII and its members continued with a
included in this report. We also outline or plan
large range of activities aimed at encouraging and
activities for 2010.
facilitating collaborative and inter‐disciplinary
research activities among EII members and with
other national and international researchers, with
industry and leading‐edge users. The activities

include taskforces, meetings, conferences, Prof Xiaofang Zhou
workshops, seminars and research visits. No other
Network Convenor
organization today can replace the role of EII in
planning, soliciting, selecting, funding, organizing,
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The research network scheme not only The international research community has
coordinates effective communications and recently reached consensus in identifying the
conduct activities like meetings, workshops, and most important topics and themes in the IT area
training schools, but is also driven by the prime for the next decade. They are, as stated in the
strategy to capitalize on the complementary original EII funding application:
expertise of members and to cultivate an inspiring
Theme 1: Ability to interoperate across
environment to allow opportunities for problem‐
existing heterogeneous platforms and
driven research, with focused vertical application
applications.
domains. EII focuses on the goals and strategies in
a five year plan of working towards the creation of Theme 2: Efficient processing of very large
an Australian Centre of Excellence in ICT in the data sets, often with unstructured data types.
future.
Theme 3: Technology adoption and impact.
GOALS The EII initiative in general and Theme 1 in
EII aims to achieve: particular, targets complex interoperability
problems in a systemic way. We recognize that
• Effective collaboration within and between international standards must play a substantial
the research themes. role in unification of system interfaces and
• Building an active and growing EII research terminology adoption. However, in practice they
community in Australia with strong do not eliminate the interoperability problems,
international links. but only limit the number of options to be
considered.
• An improved research culture to produce
highest quality research outcomes. Theme 2 is associated with many specialised
scientific applications that are tightly coupled with
• A greater impact of EII research results, which Theme 1. New computing paradigms need to be
lead to more opportunities for Australian ICT examined where performance and ability to
researchers. efficiently deal with very large and complex data
sets is critical; in areas such as e‐research, e‐
OBJECTIVES astronomy or bioinformatics. New computing
EII will: architectures, such as Grid computing, mobile and
peer‐to–peer systems, sensor networks and
• Provide opportunities and fund activities that
service‐oriented computing, will provide access to
bring together people from different research
unique sets of shared data and processes, with the
intuitions in Australia to share their
unprecedented effectiveness of driving scientific
knowledge and to collaborate, with peer
discovery further.
researchers in Australia and overseas, from
ICT areas and other disciplines, with Theme 3 on technology adoption and impact
technology providers and users. supports research that enhances understanding of
how people create, seek, obtain, manage,
• Identify and provide seed funding to conduct evaluate, use, and categorise information, and the
initial research on emerging topics that can impact of IT on individuals, organisations,
benefit Australian ICT research, development institutions, communities and society; research
and adoption. that advances the organisation, governance,
• Promote EII researchers and research to the application, management, and use of information
industry and internationally, and support and IT that reduces economic losses and social
research exchanges. costs through inappropriate applications and
implementations of technology.
• Develop a supportive environment and create
opportunities for early career researchers and The priorities of this network are to respond to
PhD students. these three research themes. These three themes
are and will continue to be the three pillars for the
EII vision and mission:
EII Vision: To provide focus for research exchange
in order to address fundamental ICT research
problems.
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EII Mission: To identify and facilitate opportunities with the two national teams in ICT research

to achieve this vision. (CSIRO and NICTA), leading ICT companies
(Microsoft and SAP), and leading‐edge users from
Our focus on these three themes has been
a large range of public and private sectors.
reinforced through facilitating specific activities as
Systematic engagement with top international
described in detail later in this Report. Operating
experts in selected areas and a focus on early‐
within the matrix of the three research themes,
career researchers and PhD students gave
seven Research programs have been identified as
Australian ICT research high international visibility
focal points of investigation for the Network:
and a bright future. This active, diverse and
Program 1: Computing Infrastructure confident research community, with an
established culture of achieving research
Program 2: Data and Knowledge Management
excellence through collaboration, is the most
Program 3: Enterprise Centric Computing important contribution of EII to this nation. This
will be a long‐lasting legacy of EII beyond the
Program 4: Security, Privacy and Trust
funding period, and ARC’s visionary and very
Program 5: Vertical Applications successful Research Network scheme.
Program 6: Technology Adoption and Impact Australia is a small economy and has limited
research capacity. It is crucial for Australian
Program 7: Service Centric Computing
researchers to collaborate. EII’s vision, mission,
EII activities have been motivated, planned and research programs and priorities, as well as its
structured based on the seven research programs. specific goals and strategies, are designed to
These activities have initiated collaboration on the maximize the returns that can be delivered from
definition of common problems and platforms for combining the expertise of its members towards
EII, investigating the established themes, research developing holistic technology and knowledge in
programs and identified problems, and their the areas where Australia has unique strength or
possible applications. requirements. EII has supported activities in
several such areas, including ICT values, water
information systems, mobile computing,
bioinformatics and total data quality management.
Many of these EII‐initiated or supported pre‐
project research activities have helped Australian
researchers, especially EII members, to work on
2009 is the fifth and final funding year for EII. Due these emerging fields.
to close to 1000 committed members and a large With rapid increase of data and information as
range of activities, EII has truly established itself as well as ultra‐fast broadband Internet, the current
a well‐organized, well‐connected and active generation of information infrastructure has
research network of leading ICT researchers with a difficulty meeting the information need of modern
clear focus and coordinated agenda for business, government, science and even peoples’
improvement of the quality and impact of everyday lives. EII is well positioned to work
Australian ICT research, especially in the area of towards the research and development of the
Computer Science, Information Technology and new generation of information infrastructure. The
Information Systems. At the national level, in the current research done by EII members, and more
context of nation‐wide pursuing of research importantly, the research culture and
excellence in recent years, a growing EII research collaboration platform enabled by EII, will be a
network has become a pivotal leveraging factor to major component of Australia’s effort in
significantly lift the image of Australia as a high developing the new information infrastructure
quality ICT research provider and to foster and that underpins the future of this nation’s smart
enhance collaboration between the ICT research economy. In 2009, EII has identified a number of
community especially in the university sector and emerging areas important to Australia and the
with industry and user groups. EII has been strength areas of EII members, leading to a
working effectively towards the national research proposal to establish a Centre of Excellence for
priorities of “smart information use” and Data Rich Society. This will be the theme for EII
“breakthrough ICT technologies”. members to pursue in 2010 and beyond.
EII is proud of building a strong and substantial
research community with a significant portion of
leading ICT research from more than half of
Australian universities, working together closely
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ARC Research Network name:
Enterprise Information Infrastructure [EII]
Administering Organisation:
Sources of Funding
2008 Carry
2009 Income In‐kind
Forward Balance
ARC Research Network Funding 455,949.01 176,739.00
Contributing Organisations 755,720.29 218,537.00
Adjustments from previous period ‐16,861.12
Administering Organization 40,000.00
TOTAL: 1,211,669.30 378,414.88 40,000.00
Expenditure
2009 ARC Research Contributing
Description TOTAL ARC + Other
Network Funding Organisations
Personnel
Prof Xiaofang Zhou[a] 46,250.49
Network Manager 87,400.63
Casual Finance Officer 10,625.37
Casual Admin Officer 4,075.45
Total 148,351.94 148,351.94
Bringing People Together
Steering Committee Meetings 7,607.55 7,607.55
ARC COE EOI Preparation 10,660.43 10,660.43
2nd Sino‐Aus Res & Ed Summit 5,098.30 5,098.30
Web Upgrade & Redesign 7,638.46 7,638.46
Understanding & Extracting Value from IT
7,053.22 7,053.22
Investments Taskforce
Data Quality Management Taskforce 1,561.42 1,561.42
Context Aware Computing Taskforce 20,241.88 20,241.88
Travel Subsidies 2,613.18 2,613.18
PhD School 30,668.41 30,374.44 61,042.85
Prizes: Research Posters & Publications 1,189.83 500.00 1,689.83
PhD Fellowships 63,246.78 63,246.78
Visits by International Experts [b] 2,601.87 65,324.17 67,926.04
Research Visits by EII Members 2,872.93 2,872.93
Sponsorships 6,000.00 39,201.75 45,201.75
Projects 19,365.35 19,365.35
Book Production 11,000.00 11,000.00
Select Topic to Publish Paper Workshop 2,533.66 2,533.66
Taxes, fees and other charges 2,131.97 2,445.50 4,577.47
Total 80,650.04 261,281.06 341,931.10
Grand Total 229,001.98 261,281.06 490,283.04
Carryover Amount 386,824.91 712,976.23 1,099,801.14
[a] Partial salary "buy‐out" for Network Convenor
[b] This item covers expenses for International Experts NOT included in taskforces, workshops & school budgets
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Provide the reason for carryover in the column below:
It is essential that reasons be provided by carryover requests

Strategic Planning: We have reserved and committed funds into 2010 to complete major projects underway. It
has been a strategic decision by the Network’s Steering Committee to retain funds for a carry over year.
Contract: Pending finalization of the Network’s contract, the Network did not have access to non‐ARC funding
in 2005‐06, and this ARC account was used as a place‐holder for various Network expenditure. Throughout
2007‐09, the ARC account was adjusted via journals.
Provision of General Non‐Cash Contributions by Member Institutions:
IN‐KIND Contributions from Administrating Organization – The University of Queensland – include:
• Office space for Network Convenor, Network Manager and casual administrative assistance
• Electricity, water, maintenance, security, cleaning
• Administrative, technical, equipment

It is the responsibility of the Research Network to ensure that the carryover amount requested in this
document has been discussed with the Administering Organisation’s Research Office and that it is
consistent with the carryover amount, which is forwarded electronically, and in hard copy, to the ARC in a
separate End of Year Report.

Research Network Convenor or Delegate:

Prof Xiaofang Zhou

Signature:

Date: 30 March 2010

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Steering Committee
The Network Convenor & Network Manager work
in consultation with the Steering Committee. The
Executive & Administration 11‐member Steering Committee, including the
The administration node for the EII Network is the Network Convenor, was initially chosen from the
School of Information Technology & Electrical Network’s core members who have a proven track
Engineering at The University of Queensland: record of research management, who cover key
research areas within the EII Network, and who
ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information
work from diverse locations around Australia. The
Infrastructure [EII]
Committee has agreed that its four "big"
School of Information Technology & Electrical
contributors – The University of Queensland, The
Engineering
University of Sydney, Monash University & The
University of New South Wales – should have
Brisbane Q 4072 Australia
ongoing representation on the Steering
Tel: 61‐7‐3365 1649
Committee, as well as keeping in mind the need to
Fax: 61‐7‐3365 3248
represent leading researchers across Information
Web: http://www.eii.edu.au
Systems [IS] and Computer Science [CS], as well as
Email: eii@eii.edu.au
to include other member universities which
The Network Convenor and the Network Manager haven’t yet been represented on the Committee.
are responsible for managing the day‐to‐day This Committee meets twice per year and its role
network activities. The Network Manager acts as is to formulate network policies, make strategic,
secretary for all meetings and administrator for all management, financial and operational decisions ‐
EII business. approve major EII activities and expenditure ‐ and
help the Network expand through a longer term
In 2009, the Network continued to employ two
global vision, maintain a general overview of the
casual staff: a finance officer [one day per week]
network activities, and mentorship of specific
and a casual admin officer who supported event
network projects. In 2009, the Committee met in
organization between January and May 2009.
April in Brisbane to coincide with EII's PhD School,
Even with this assistance, the Network Manager
and again in August via Access Grid.
often works overtime to keep up with the
administrative demands of the Network. The
Network Manager is a major role which requires Steering Committee Members
competence, experience and initiative in a wide 2009
diversity of duties. Just as the Network scheme
2004‐ Prof David Abramson
exists to cultivate and invigorate the conduct and
Professor of Computer Science, Monash University
quality of Australian research, the Networks have
also provided a similar environment for the 2007‐ Prof Joseph Davis
enhancement of administrative skills. Director of Information Systems, Uni Sydney
2004‐ Prof Shirley Gregor
Network Convenor [Academic Level E – 25%]:
Professor, Business & Information Management,
Prof Xiaofang Zhou
Australian National University
Phone: +61 7 3365 2989
Fax: +61 7 3365 3248 2004‐ Prof Igor Hawryszkiewycz
Email: zxf@eii.edu.au Professor of Computing, University of Technology
Sydney
Network Manager [HEW 7 – 100% time]:
2004‐ Prof Rao Kotagiri
Ms Kathleen Williamson
Professor, Computer Science & Software
Network Finance Officer [HEW 4 – 20% time]: Engineering, The University of Melbourne
Ms Maureen Shields [January ‐ October 2009] 2007‐ Prof Xuemin Lin
Network Admin Officer [HEW 4 – 20% time]: Professor, Computer Science & Engineering, The
Ms Chanelle Zou [January ‐ May 2009] University of New South Wales
2005‐ Prof Graeme Shanks
Professor, Information Systems, The University of
Melbourne
2004‐ Prof Vijay Varadharajan
Professor & Microsoft Chair in Computing,
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2005‐ Prof Yanchun Zhang Network Communications
Director, Internet Technologies & Application The EII Web Portal is a central repository of all
Research Lab, Victoria University information pertaining to the Network and its
2004‐ Prof Xiaofang Zhou activities, as well as a hub for information
Professor of Computer Science, The University of generated, like workshop presentations and
Queensland taskforce reports. Appendix C shows web server
statistics.
Institutional Contacts 2009 EII’s web portal is a major national source of
To assist in planning and approving expenditure of announcements and information for opportunities
institutional contributions to EII, there is a of relevance to the general ICT community: about
nominated contact person at each institution. employment, scholarships, upcoming conferences,
Appendix B shows a listing of institutional contacts schools and master classes, calls for participation
in 2009. in journals, books and forums, as well as providing
links to sponsored events and important resources.
Advisory Board In 2009, the web’s CMS and page design were
The Network’s Advisory Board, with upgraded. Various features which were previously
representatives from industry, academia and manually handled have been automated. These
government, has been selected by the EII Steering changes will greatly assist in ongoing
Committee from a mix of Australian and administration of the website after the conclusion
internationally renowned experts in the area of of EII funding.
ICT research who also have considerable
experience in strategic R&D leadership. Two The Network’s website currently features:
participants are from within Australia, and three • Homepage with a brief introduction about the
from overseas. The responsibility of this Board is Network as well as featuring current news
to advise on EII’s mission and vision, and to assess items, contact details, and information about
the ongoing performance of the Network. The the Network’s governance, participants, and
Advisory Board and their influential networks exist research programs
to help EII, particularly via their strategic • Upcoming events directory
knowledge, and to act as sounding boards in • Announcements of EII’s achievements and
comparison with other similar activities elsewhere Network funded opportunities
in the world. • Information about how to initiate Network
activities
• EII Annual Reports
Advisory Board Members 2009
• Links to items of interest for the ICT
Dr Evan Arthur
community
Group Manager, Digital Education,
• Joining the Network
Commonwealth Government Department of
• Current/historical listing of Network activities
Education, Employment & Workplace Relations,
• Taskforce projects
DEEWR
Prof Keith Jeffery Via the School of Information Technology &
Director, IT & International Strategy, Science & Electrical Engineering’s IT Infrastructure Group,
Technology Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton various email lists have been established for EII,
Laboratory of CCLRC, UK and these are used frequently as Network
communication tools by the EII management team
Prof Arun Sharma
as well as by EII members. This allows ongoing
Deputy Vice‐Chancellor, Research &
communication with the Network’s growing
Commercialization
membership base as new members come on
Queensland University of Technology, QUT
board mostly as a consequence of participation in
Dr Harry Shum EII activities. We establish dedicated email lists for
Corporate Vice President [Core Search each of the taskforce teams as well as for specific
Development], Microsoft, USA events and projects.
Prof Douglas Vogel
Chair Professor of Information Systems, College of
Business, Department of Information Systems,
City University of Hong Kong
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Members &
MEMBERSHIP SNAPSHOT Associate ECRs Students TOTAL
Members
565 67 340 972

Members &
MAJOR ACTIVITIES IN 2009 & NUMBERS OF
Associate ECRs Students TOTAL
ACTIVE PARTICIPANTS
Members
Workshop on Interacting with Information
Technologies [Taskforce on Extracting Value from 5 3 12 20
Information Technology Investments]
EOI Preparation Meetings ‐ ARC Centre of
9 9
Excellence for a Data Rich Society
Taskforce on Data Quality Management 2 1 3
Taskforce on Context Aware Computing 5 5
nd
2 Sino‐Australian Research & Education Summit 17 17
From Selecting a Topic to Publishing Workshop 3 6 21 30
Publication Production 3 3
PhD School 4 12 47 63
Prizes 3 2 18 23
Seminars & Research Visits by International
29 29
Experts
Seminars & Research Visits by EII Members 7 7
PhD Fellowships 9 9
Travel Subsidies 8 5 15 28
TOTAL NUMBER OF ACTIVE PARTICIPANTS 90 28 128 246

OTHER QUANTITATIVE KPIs TOTAL OTHER QUANTITATIVE KPIs TOTAL
RHD students actually funded
ECRs actually funded for activities listed above 19 101
for activities listed above
RHD students attending EII
ECRs attending EII events 21 104
events
Participant Proposals Submitted 1 Participant Proposals Funded 1
Attendance at Management
Management Meetings 2 10
Meetings
Events: workshops, seminars, schools etc. 16 Outreach activities 3
International
PhD supervision & completions 4 8
Linkages/Collaborations
Publications directly due to EII involvement 27 Universities receiving funding 21
Successful Grant proposals submitted 2 Web hits in 2008 1,234,786
Targeted activities for research students 5
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University, Prof Chengqi Zhang, University of

Technology, Sydney, Prof Xiaofang Zhou, The
University of Queensland, and Prof Albert Zomaya,
In working towards the Network’s goals and The University of Sydney
objectives, EII activities in 2009 have been
motivated, planned and structured on the
Network’s seven research programs. Major EII INTERNATIONAL
activities in 2009 include: taskforces, schools,
fellowships to support research training and EXPERTS
collaboration, workshops, seminars, travel
Budget: $67,926.04
subsidies, and event sponsorship.
EII sponsored research visits and seminars in 2009
These activities focus on bringing people together
benefited local EII members through engagement
and bringing top people to Australia. They allow
with the national and global research community.
opportunity for networking with peers and senior
Information on these visits appear in five different
researchers both nationally and internationally,
sections in this report: general research visits,
and provide a forum for critical feedback and
seminars, workshops, schools and sponsored
sharing the fundamentals in developing quality
events.
research.
This type of interaction amongst researchers is RESEARCH VISITS
leading to improvement in the quality of ICT
The University of New South Wales
research through broader and deeper links among
Prof Farouk Toumani, University Blaise Pascal,
researchers in the network, and some real
France, visited Prof Boualem Benatallah's Service
collaborative work has been established over the
Oriented Computing [SOC] research group in
last five years of the Network’s life. These
July/August 2009. Prof Toumani is one of Prof
activities also aim to cultivate cross‐disciplinary
Benatallah's main collaborators on query models
collaboration, and introduce researchers to new
for business process data. EII has assisted this
topics and broaden research understanding with a
collaboration through funding exchange visits,
particular focus on PhD students and early career
and it has born fruit through great research results.
researchers.
The collaborative work has led to funding from the
Auvergne region in France via a Grant to Prof
ARC CENTRE OF Benatallah. This project also involves a new PhD
student and a programmer jointly supervised by
EXCELLENCE FOR A Benatallah and Toumani.
Prof Fabio Casati, University of Trento, Italy, is a
DATA RICH SOCIETY close research collaborator with Prof Benatallah's
Budget: $10,660.43 SOC group. He visited from 30 November to 5
Centre Research Program: Appendix D December 2008. During 2009, Prof Benatallah has
List of Participants: Appendix E applied for European grants with Prof Casati, and
they are also jointly supervising PhD students as
As the Network has developed and grown over
well as co‐chairing the ICWE 2010 conference.
the last five years, there has been active and
ongoing interest among a number of core Dr Avigdor Gal, Faculty of Industrial Engineering &
members to work towards an ARC Centre of Management, Technion, Israel Institute of
Excellence application. In 2009, under the Technology, visited the SOC group from 9‐11
leadership of Prof Rao Kotagiri, The University of February 2009 and commenced collaboration on
Melbourne, this group prepared and submitted an data integration techniques.
Expression of Interest [EOI] application for the
Dr Wenyu Qu, Information Science and
2011 round of ARC Centres of Excellence.
Technology School, Dalian Maritime University,
Unfortunately the network was notified in
China, and Dr Keqiu Li, Dalian University of
February 2010 that the EOI was not successful in
Technology, China, visited Prof Xuemin Lin's
making it through to the full application stage. The
Database research group from April ‐ June 2009.
Network will continue to work on this theme, and
During this visit they collaborated as Guest Editors
prepare for future rounds of COE applications.
for a Special Issue of the Journal of Network and
The chief investigators who led the proposal Computer Applications on "Recent Advances in
include: Prof Rao Kotagiri, The University of Cloud Computing".
Melbourne, Prof David Abramson, Monash
Prof Jianzhong Li and Dr Hongzhi Wang, Harbin
University, Prof Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie
Institute of Technology, China, and Prof Xiaofeng
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Meng, Vice Dean of School of Information, Renmin The commencement of active research projects

University of China visited the Database Group in between Monash University and IBM IRL
April 2009. Prof Ke Yi, Hong Kong University of researchers is likely to lead to joint papers,
Science and Technology, visited the Database internships and increased joint supervision of RHD
Group in August 2009. students. In addition, there is likely involvement of
Monash researchers in a planned FP7 project that
Swinburne University of Technology
IBM will be coordinating.
Prof Jianzhong Li, Chair of the Department of
Computer Science & Engineering, and director of Victoria University
Data and Knowledge Engineering Research Center Prof Qingshan Jiang, Dean of Software School,
at Harbin Institute of Technology, China, visited Xiamen University, China, visited Prof Yanchun
Prof Chengfei Liu in April 2009. Prof. Li is/was Zhang's Centre for Applied Informatics Research in
Primary Investigator of about 30 projects the School of Engineering & Science, from 3‐7
supported by National Natural Science Foundation February 2009. A/Prof Jianwei Niu from The
of China, 863 Program of China, 973 Program of University of Texas at San Antonio, visited in early
China, Ministry of Science and Technology of March 2009, and Prof Wenhui Zeng, Vice Dean of
China, Ministry of Education of China, Chinese Software School, Xiamen University, China, and
Academy of Science, Heilongjiang Province Prof In Rouse, Dean of Fiji Medical School, visited
Government, and Harbin City Government. Prof Zhang's group on 24 March 2009.
Monash University University of Tasmania
Researchers from IBM India Research Labs (Dr After previous successful visits over the last three
Mukesh Mohania, Dr Shivkumar Kalyanaraman years, Prof Michael Twidale, University of Illinois
and Dr Dipanjan Chakraborty) visited Monash Urbana‐Champaigne, USA, visited Prof Chris Lueg,
University in 2009 as part of developing and School of Computing and Information Systems,
strengthening collaborations between IBM IRL and University of Tasmania in November/ December
Monash University. These visits have followed 2009. Collaboration between Prof Chris Lueg's
from past visits to IRL by A/Prof Shonali group with Prof Twidale's Graduate School of
Krishnaswamy and Prof Arkady Zaslavsky from Information and Library Science, has been and
Monash University. It needs to be noted that only continues to be very productive.
Dr Chakraborty's and Dr Kalyanaraman's visits
were fully funded by EII, while Dr Mohania's visit
A senior delegation from the National Natural
was primarily funded by other sources. During
Science Foundation of China [NSFC] visited The
these visits, the researchers from IBM IRL have
University of Queensland on 14‐15 May 2009. This
presented seminars and had detailed interactions
EII supported visit has lead to a number of high‐
with both academics and RHD students from the
level and concrete outcomes, including NSFC’s
Centre for Distributed Systems and Software
support of the 2nd Sino‐Australian Research &
Engineering (DSSE) at Monash University. These
Education Summit, and ARC linkage with NSFC via
interactions have resulted in the following
Prof Richard Coleman’s attendance at this Summit.
activities:
• A joint ARC Linkage application has been As well as meeting with staff in the the School of
submitted involving CIs from Monash Information Technology & Electrical Engineering,
University (A/Prof Krishnaswamy, Dr Gaber) the delegation also met with Prof Max Lu, Deputy
and PIs from IBM IRL (Dr Kalyanaraman, Dr Vice Chancellor [Research], and toured the
Chakraborty and Mr Seetharam). Queensland Brain Institute. The visitors included:
• A joint research proposal has been submitted
• Prof Jiaguang Sun, Vice president, NSFC, &
to the Australia‐India Strategic Research Fund
Director, School of Information Science &
(AISRF) involving researchers from Monash
Technology, Tsinghua University, China
University (A/Prof Krishnaswamy), IBM IRL (Dr
• Mr Xianping Meng, Director General of the
Kalyanaraman, Dr Chakraborty and Mr
Bureau of Planning of NSFC
Seetharam) and the Indian Institute of Science
• Mr Qing Chang, Deputy Director General of
(Prof. H S Jamadagni)
the Bureau of International Cooperation of
• Co‐supervision of RHD students of Monash
NSFC
University by Dr Dipanjan Chakraborty (IBM
• Mr Guoqian Wang, Program Director of the
IRL).
Bureau of Policy of the NSFC
• Doctoral Internships of Monash RHD students
at IBM IRL and joint publications arising from Prof Jianmin Wang, Tsinghua University, China,
these internships (Mr Kutila Gunasekara, Ms visited Prof Xiaofang Zhou’s Data & Knowledege
Saguna Saguna and Mr Dhananjay Thiruvady). Engineering Group in 2009.
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SEMINARS seminar was well attended and Prof Olfman also

spent time with the research students affiliated
Towards a Quiescent World: Local with the Knowledge Discovery and Management
Inference in Complex Systems Research Group at the University of Sydney.
Speaker: Prof Assaf Schuster, Technion, Israel The main focus of his talk described the Claremont
Institute of Technology Conversation Online project, which is under the
Date & Place: 12 February 2009, School of IT leadership of the Social Learning Software Lab
Building, Board (Room 124), Level 1, The (SL2), a part of the School of Information Systems
University of Sydney and Technology at Claremont Graduate University.
The lab is co‐directed by Lorne Olfman and Terry
Prof Assaf Schuster, Technion, Israel Institute of
Ryan (who is the Dean of the School). The lab was
Technology, visited The University of Sydney from
established to do research to enhance the quality
10‐14 February 2009. He presented his research in
and productivity of social learning software
the area of complex systems to a group of
(software that facilitates collaboration among
research students, as well as presenting a Basser
groups of people with common interests). A
seminar on the topic, "Toward a Quiescent World:
number of ongoing projects are using an "action
Local Inference in Complex Systems”. He also
design" method to develop new features for
worked with Dr Bjorn Landfeldt and Dr Tasos
existing education‐based social technologies. The
Viglas on a research proposal to be submitted to
main project uses as its platform a social
NICTA in the area of transport systems.
technology called Elgg, which is a person and
Prof Assaf Schuster is a PhD graduate of the community centred open source system and
Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Since 1991 he has forms the basis for the Claremont Conversation
been with the CS department at the Technion, Online system, which is being used extensively at
Haifa. He established and manages DSL – the Claremont Graduate University. The talk also
Distributed Systems Laboratory, which is described some of the other projects that SL2 has
supported by Intel, Microsoft, Sun, IBM, and undertaken over the past two years, and plans for
others. Prof. Schuster is well known in the area of future projects.
parallel, distributed, high‐performance, and grid
Lorne Olfman is a Professor in the School of
computing. He has published over 160 papers in
Information Systems and Technology and Fletcher
those areas. He is a consultant to the hi‐tech
Jones Chair in Technology Management at
industry on related issues and holds seven patents.
Claremont Graduate University (CGU). He came to
He also serves as an associate editor of the Journal
Claremont in 1987 after graduating with a PhD in
of Parallel and Distributed Computing, and IEEE
Business (Management Information Systems)
Transactions on Computers. In recent years, Prof.
from Indiana University. Lorne's research interests
Schuster's group has focused on distributed
include: how software can be learned and used in
knowledge discovery, acquiring expertise in large‐
organizations, the impact of computer‐based
scale distributed data mining. The group has
systems on knowledge management, and the
published novel approaches to data mining in
design and adoption of systems used for group
large‐scale distributed systems and databases,
work. Along with Terry Ryan, Lorne co‐directs the
including multi‐party collaborative environments.
Social Learning Software Lab (SL2).
Recently, the group has published several (award‐
winning) new approaches and algorithmic Scalable Network Distance Browsing in
breakthroughs for efficient knowledge discovery Spatial Databases (SIGMOD 2008 Best
in such systems.
Paper Award)
The Claremont Conversation Online and Speaker: Prof Hanan Samet, University of
Related Social Software Research Maryland, USA
Speaker: Prof Lorne Olfman, Fletcher Jones Chair Date & Place: 20 April , Theatre 2, ICT Building,
in Technology Management, School of The University of Melbourne
Information Systems & Technology, Claremont In this talk, Prof Samet presented an algorithm for
Graduate University, USA finding the k nearest neighbours in a spatial
Date & Place: 25 March 2009, School of IT network in a best‐first manner using network
Building, Board Room (Room 124), Level 1, The distance. The algorithm is based on precomputing
University of Sydney the shortest paths between all possible vertices in
Prof Lorne Olfman, Claremont University, USA, the network and then making use of an encoding
visited The University of Sydney from 24‐27 March that takes advantage of the fact that the shortest
2009. He presented a seminar on his research paths from vertex u to all of the remaining
into social learning models and software. The vertices can be decomposed into subsets based on
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the first edges on the shortest paths to them from was designed. This requires a program

u. Thus, in the worst case, the amount of work development infrastructure that can, by means of
depends on the number of objects that are appropriate abstractions, permits the programmer
examined and the number of links on the shortest to focus on his problem, and not be distracted by
paths to them from q, rather than depending on "systems issues" that arise when high availability
the number of vertices in the network. The is required. He discussed the attributes of good
amount of storage required to keep track of the abstractions, then illustrated this in the
subsets is reduced by taking advantage of their programming of dependable systems. His
spatial coherence which is captured by the aid of a "abstraction" is a "natural" stateful programming
shortest path quadtree. In particular, experiments model for use in the web enterprise setting. The
on a number of large road networks as well as a technical meat of the talk was (1) elaborating the
theoretical analysis have shown that the storage nature this abstraction; and (2) supporting this
has been reduced by an order of magnitude equal abstraction to achieve good performance.
to the square root). The precomputation of the
David Lomet has been a principal researcher
shortest paths along the network essentially
managing the Microsoft Research Database Group
decouples the process of computing shortest
at Microsoft Research since 1995. Earlier, he spent
paths along the network from that of finding the
seven and a half years at Digital Equipment
neighbours, and thereby also decouples the
Corporation. He has been at IBM Research in
domain S of the query objects and that of the
Yorktown and a Professor at Wang Institute. Dr.
objects from which the neighbours are drawn
Lomet spent a sabbatical at University of
from the domain V of the vertices of the spatial
Newcastle‐upon‐Tyne working with Brian Randell.
network. This means that as long as the spatial
He has a Computer Science PhD from the
network is unchanged, the algorithm and
University of Pennsylvania. Dr Lomet has done
underlying representation of the shortest paths in
research and product development in architecture,
the spatial network can be used with different sets
programming languages, and distributed systems.
of objects. This joint work with Jagan
His primary interest is database systems, focusing
Sankaranarayanan and Houman Alborzi received
on access methods, concurrency control, and
the Best Paper award in ACM SIGMOD 2008.
recovery. He is one of the inventors of the
Hanan Samet received the BS degree in transaction concept and is an author of over 90
engineering from the University of California, Los papers and 35 patents. Two papers won SIGMOD
Angeles, and the MS Degree in operations "best paper" awards. Dr Lomet has served on
research and the MS and PhD degrees in program committees, including SIGMOD, PODS,
computer science from Stanford University, VLDB, and ICDE. He was ICDE'2000 PC co‐chair and
Stanford, CA. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, and VLDB 2006 PC core chair. He is a member of the
IAPR (International Association for Pattern ICDE Steering Committee and VLDB Board. He is
Recognition). editor‐in‐chief of the Data Engineering Bulletin
since 1992 and past editor of ACM TODS and the
Dependability, Abstraction, and VLDB Journal. Dr Lomet is IEEE Golden Core
Programming Member and received IEEE Outstanding
Speaker: Dr David Lomet, Principal Researcher, Contribution and Meritorious Service Awards. Dr.
Database Group, Microsoft Research, USA Lomet is both ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow.
Date & Place: 24 April 2009, Ian Ross Seminar
Room, Australian National University Immortal DB: A Compelling Case for
Transaction Time Database Systems
Dr. David Lomet is the Research Director of the
Database Research Laboratory at Microsoft Speaker: Dr David Lomet, Principal Researcher,
Research. He was the guest of the CSIRO ICT Database Group, Microsoft Research, USA
Centre in Canberra where he gave an invited talk Date & Place: 27 April 2009 , School of IT Building,
on data services. Dr. Lomet shared his vision and Lecture Theatre (Room 123), Level 1, The
that of Microsoft about the emerging area of University of Sydney
cloud computing. He also discussed with CSIRO The visit of Dr David Lomet to The University of
researchers about Microsoft investigatons to Sydney from 25‐28 April 2009, included a seminar
move this area from concept to product. presentation related to his recent work on the
In his CSIRO talk, Dr Lomet looked at what is ImmortalDB multiversion storage system. This was
required to produce programs that are attended by a wide range of staff, honours and
dependable. Dependability requires more than research students, and also by students from the
just high availability. Rather, a program needs to coursework Masters degree who were taking a
be "right" as well, solving the problem for which it unit on Advanced Data Models, in which Dr
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Lomet's work was studied. Dr Lomet met with tree) that enables fast highdimensional NN search

several research students and academics, with excellent quality. The combination of several
including A/Prof Fekete, to discuss recent research LSB‐trees leads to a structure called the LSB‐forest
being done in the database field at The University that ensures the same result quality as rigorous‐
of Sydney. LSH, but reduces its space and query cost
dramatically. The LSB‐forest also outperforms
Immortal DB is a transaction time database that is
adhoc‐LSH, even though the latter has no quality
built into the kernel of a commercial database
guarantee. Besides its appealing theoretical
system, Microsoft SQL Server. The Immortal DB
properties, the LSB‐tree itself also serves as an
goal was to have performance comparable to that
effective index that consumes linear space, and
of an unversioned current time database, while
supports efficient updates. Extensive experiments
providing the benefit of being able to access all
confirm that the LSB‐tree is faster than (i) the
historical database states with good performance.
state of the art of exact NN search by two orders
This ability to access historical database states is
of magnitude, and (ii) the best (linear‐space)
an important part of audit functionality, which
method of approximate retrieval by an order of
Immortal DB supplements by being able to
magnitude, and at the same time, returns
identify the user responsible for each transaction.
neighbours with much better quality.
Immortal DB versioning is a high performance
implementation of snapshot isolation versioning Ke Yi received his BE from Tsinghua University and
as well. Further, Immortal DB supports high Ph.D. from Duke University, in 2001 and 2006
availability via fast removal of the effects of bad respectively, both in computer science.
user transactions, which lead to long outages with After spending one year at AT&T Labs as a
conventional techniques. The combination of researcher, he has been an Assistant Professor in
excellent performance with audit and high the Department of Computer Science and
availability functionality is unique to Immortal DB. Engineering at Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology since 2007. His research interests
Quality and Efficiency in High include algorithms, data structures, and databases.
Dimensional Nearest Neighbour Search Mining from Data Streams: Issues and
Speaker: Prof. Ke Yi, Computer Science and Challenges
Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Speaker: Dr Joao Gama, University of Porto,
Technology Portugal
Date & Place: 3 August 2009, The University of Date & Place: 24 August 2009, The University of
Queensland Queensland
Prof Yi visited The University of Queensland as Date & Place: 31 August 2009, Building: 63, Room:
Keynote Speaker for the Data & Knowledge 115, Clayton Campus, Monash University
Engineering Research Group Workshop on 4 Dr Gama visited Dr Xue Li at The University of
August. He also presented a school seminar the Queensland on 24 August, and visited Dr Shonali
day before on 3 August. Krishnaswamy, Taskforce on Context Aware
Nearest neighbour (NN) search in high Computing at Monash University for a week’s visit
dimensional space is an important problem in from 25‐31 August. Refer to the CAC Taskforce
many applications. Ideally, a practical solution report for full details on the research outcomes of
(i) should be implementable in a relational Dr Gama’s visit.
database, and (ii) its query cost should grow sub‐ The Machine Learning community is faced to new
linearly with the dataset size, regardless of the challenges with the advent of sources producing
data and query distributions. Despite the bulk of continuously flow of data. Examples of streaming
NN literature, no solution fulfils both data include sensor networks, customer click
requirements, except locality sensitive hashing streams, telephone records, web logs, multimedia
(LSH). The existing LSH implementations are either data, sets of retail chain transactions, etc. These
rigorous or adhoc. Rigorous‐LSH ensures good data sources are characterized by high‐speed flow
quality of query results, but requires expensive of huge amounts of data generated from non
space and query cost. Although adhoc‐LSH is more stationary distributions. As a consequence, new
efficient, it abandons quality control, i.e., the learning techniques are needed to process
neighbour it outputs can be arbitrarily bad. As a streaming data in reasonable time and space. The
result, currently no method is able to ensure both goal of this seminar was to present and discuss
quality and efficiency simultaneously in practice. the research problems, issues and challenges in
Motivated by this, Prof Yi proposed a new access learning from data streams.
method called the locality sensitive B‐tree (LSB‐
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Dr Gama presented the state‐of‐the‐art of scale and complexity of high end HPC systems.

techniques in change detection, clustering, Users must be supported by intelligent compilers,
classification, frequent patterns, and time series automatic performance analysis tools, adaptive
analysis from data streams. He discussed the libraries, and scalable software.
current trends, challenges and open issues and
In this talk Dr DeRose presented the Cray
future directions in learning from data streams.
programming environment features that are being
Joao Gama is a researcher at LIAAD‐INESC Porto developed and deployed to improve user's
LA, the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and productivity on Cray Supercomputers. He also
Decision Support of the University of Porto. discussed some of the challenges and open
His main research interest is Learning from Data research problems that need to be addressed to
Streams. He has published several articles in build the system software for peta‐scale systems.
change detection, learning decision trees from
Dr Luiz DeRose is a Senior Principal Engineer and
data streams, hierarchical clustering from streams,
the Programming Environments Director at Cray
etc. Editor of special issues on Data Streams in
Inc, where he is responsible for the programming
Intelligent Data Analysis, J. Universal Computer
environment strategy for all Cray systems. Before
Science, and New Generation Computing.
joining Cray in 2004, he was a research staff
Co‐chair of ECML 2005 Porto, ADMA 2009, Beijing,
member and the Tools Group Leader at the
Discovery Science 2009, Porto, and of a series of
Advanced Computing Technology Center at IBM
Workshops on Knowledge Discovery in Data
Research. Dr. DeRose had a Ph.D. in Computer
Streams, in conjunction with ECML‐PKDD (2004,
Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana‐
2005, 2006, 2007, 2008) and ICML 2006, ACM
Champaign. With more than 20 years of high
Symposium on Applied Computing in 2007, 2008,
performance computing experience and a deep
2009, 2010, and the ACM Workshop on
knowledge of its programming environments, he
Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data, held in
has published more than 40 peer‐review articles in
conjunction with ACM SIGKDD 2007, 2008, 2009.
scientific journals, conferences, and book chapters,
Together with M. Gaber edited the book Learning
primarily on the topics of compilers and tools for
from Data Streams‐Processing Techniques in
high performance computing.
Sensor Networks, published by Springer.
Addressing Usability Challenges in Using MRNet and StackwalkerAPI to

Current and Future Supercomputers deliver scalable analysis of crashing
Speaker: Dr Luiz De Rose, Programming applications on Cray XT Systems
Environments Director, Sr. Principal Engineer, Cray
Speaker: Dr Bob Moench, PE Debugger
Inc., USA
Development, Cray Inc., USA
Date & Place: 6 October 2009, School of IT
Date & Place: 7 October 2009, Building: H, Room:
Building, The University of Sydney
7.84, Monash University
Date & Place: 8 October 2009, Building: H, Room:
7.84, Monash University Along with his colleague, Dr De Rose, Dr Moench
visited Prof David Abramson at Monash University
Dr Luiz De Rose is a senior principal engineer at
from 4‐10 October 2009.
Cray Research Labs, USA. He visited Prof David
Abramson at Monash University from 4‐10 As HPC systems have grown ever larger, the
October 2009 with a day visit to The University of amount of information associated with a failing
Sydney on 6 October. parallel application has grown beyond what the
beleaguered applications developer has the time,
In Sydney, he presented his research on usability
resources, and wherewithal to analyse. The
challenges in current and future super computers
"complete" picture, delivered by a core file for
to the Distributed Computing Research Group. He
each of tens of thousands of processes, swamps
also interacted with researchers and research
both the hardware and the user's comprehension.
students and worked with Prof Albert Zomaya to
Yet the single core file of the original failing
develop a proposal in the area of energy efficient
process is often not sufficient to study the
computing.
problem.
The scale of current and future high end systems,
In this presentation, Dr Moench presented a
as well as the increasing system software and
middle ground that is both manageable and
architecture complexity, brings a new set of
sufficient.
challenges for application developers. In order to
achieve high performance on peta‐scale systems, Bob Moench was a Maths major and has been a
application developers need a programming software developer at Cray Inc. for 12 years where
environment that can address and hide the issues he has performed extensive work in debugger
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development. During that time Moench was the Acknowledgements: Material & ideas for this talk

designer of the debugging strategy for Cray's were in part sourced from several IBM'ers
Cascade Petascale supercomputer as well as the (especially Deva Seetharam & Reji Pillai, IBM
Cray XT CLE massively parallel processor system India), and inspiration from David MacKay's book
and the X1 and X2 vector based supercomputers. on this area.
These systems differ significantly and cannot
Shivkumar Kalyanaraman is a Senior Manager of
make use of off‐the‐shelf debug technologies. Just
the Next Gen Systems & Smarter Planet Solutions
as large applications must launch in a scalable way,
Department at IBM India Research Labs,
so too must Debug sessions.
Bangalore. He was previously a Manager of the
Smarter Energy: The Promise of Cyber‐ Next Generation Telecom Research group and a
Physical Energy Systems Research Staff Member since 2008. He was a full
Speaker: Prof Shivkumar Kalyanaraman Professor at the Department of Electrical,
Senior Manager, Next Gen Systems & Smarter Computer and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer
Planet Solutions Department, IBM India Research Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. He received a
Labs, Bangalore, India BTech degree in Computer Science from the
Date & Place: 9 October 2009, School of IT Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India in
Building, Lecture Theatre (Room 123), Level 1, The July 1993, followed by MS and PhD degrees at the
University of Sydney Ohio State University in 1994 and 1997
respectively. He also holds an Executive M.B.A.
Dr Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, Senior Manager of (EMBA) degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic
Next Generation Systems & Smarter Planet Institute (2005). His current research in IBM is at
Solutions, IBM Research ‐ India (IRL) visited The the intersection of emerging wireless technologies
University of Sydney between 2‐10 October 2009. and IBM middleware and systems technologies
He spent a week at the School of IT and made with applications to large‐scale smarter planet
several informal presentations as well as a formal problems (grids, traffic, finance etc). He was
seminar under the Basser seminar series on the selected by MIT's Technology Review Magazine in
topic, “Smarter Energy: The Promise of Cyber‐ 1999 as one of the top 100 young innovators for
Physical Energy Systems”. During his visit to the new millennium. He served as the TPC Co‐
Australia, he also met and interacted with chair of IEEE INFOCOM 2008, and will be the
researchers from Monash and Melboune General co‐chair of ACM SIGCOMM 2010 in New
universities. Delhi. He is on the editorial board of IEEE/ACM
His talk in Sydney reviewed how the climate Transactions of Networking. He is a Senior
change problem is linked to the fossil‐fuel energy Member of ACM and IEEE.
problem, and overview various options for
sustainable energy and their relative contributions. Sensors Data Stream Management:
Prof Kalyanaraman then discussed smarter energy Theory and System Demonstration
(including smart grids), and how sensing, Speaker: Dr Cyril Labbé, Université Joseph Fourier
networking, real‐time analytics, actuation and (Grenoble University France)
control come together in a "cyber‐physical" Date & Place: 5 November 2009, Building: H,
system. Room: H7.84, Caulfield Campus, Monash
The talk also discussed key IBM commercial and University
research initiatives worldwide ‐ ranging from Dr Cyril Labbé is currently on sabbatical visiting
smart grids in Australia, next‐gen smart grid pilots Monash University from June 2009 ‐ June 2010.
in the USA, unified grid/water management in From 2001, he was appointed Assistant Professor
Malta, concentrated solar‐power and desalination at Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble University
in Saudi Arabia, integration of fickle wind energy France). Since then he has been working in the
and plug‐in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) in field of data management in various systems:
Denmark, context‐sensitive "smart" demand‐ Grids, P2P systems and since 2002 on Mobile and
response systems for residential use. Australia has Sensing systems. He has also some experience in
a unique opportunity given the abundance of the field of French text‐mining.
sustainable energy sources, large land/desert and
sea‐coast and off‐shore areas, and the huge Sensor environments have become a very popular
investment in broadband networking. research topic in many areas of computer science
such as networks, databases, embedded operating
Prof Kalyanaraman also explored opportunities for systems and more generally, ubiquitous
collaborative projects involving IBM, universities computing. The contribution of these tiny yet
and other commercial/non‐profit entities. intelligent devices to the new ”information
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everywhere” paradigm is now well recognized and range of practical tools for real‐time global

various computer science domains try to face collaborative research and smaller/niche research.
challenges that have appeared due to this new Researchers demonstrated how to transform
way of computing. Effective "sensor data stream research by engaging with High Performance
management systems" covering the whole range Computing systems, visualisation services, as well
of management operations (from querying to as data storage, management and processing
configuration through data‐mining) are not yet tools. Practical solutions were shown in Data
available. Management and storage, data analysis utilising
High Performance Computing, state‐of‐the‐art
This seminar presented Prof Labbé’s past and
Visualisation Services and real‐time, global
current work in this field. This includes: sensor
Collaboration Services ‐ enabling faster, better and
querying, concurrent operations on sensors
more creative research.
streams and a demonstration of the SStreamWare
prototype. Prof Xuemin Lin, The University of New South
Wales, visited Prof Chengfei Liu at Swinburne
The talk also provided an overview of two
University of Technology on 24 April 2009.
collaborative projects that Dr Labbé is working on
with researchers at DSSE, Monash University: 1) Prof Chris Lueg, University of Tasmania, visited
analysing realtime feedback 2) continuous the University of Technology, Sydney, on 3‐4
interaction between clustering and continuous March 2009 to work on a linkage grant proposal.
querying.
Data Quality and Data Provenance
Research
MEMBER RESEARCH Speaker: Prof Xiaofang Zhou, School of
Information Technology and Electrical Engineering,
VISITS & SEMINARS The University of Queensland
Budget: $2,872.93 Date & Place: 20 March 2009, , School of IT
Building, Lecture Theatre (Room 123), Level 1, The
Dr Athman Bouguettaya, CSIRO ICT Centre University of Sydney
Canberra, visited Prof Boualem Benatallah's
Service Oriented Computing [SOC] group at The Prof Xiaofang Zhou, The University of Queensland,
University of New South Wales on 5 June 2009. was invited by the School of Information
During this day long visit, he gave a talk to the Technologies, to present a seminar on data
research group and also discussed potential quality.
collaboration. Through this connection, the SOC Data quality can be defined as the fitness for the
group has started working with CSIRO ICT Centre intended use. Data quality control becomes one of
via co‐supervision of PhD candidates. Dr major challenges for the modern information
Bouguettaya has applied for an Adjunct Professor society. In this talk, Prof Zhou introduced the
position at UNSW for that purpose. concept of data quality from organizational,
Prof Boualem Benatallah, The University of New architectural and computational angles. After a
South Wales, visited Dr Michael Sheng at The brief overview of key components of
University of Adelaide for a day long meeting on computational data quality research including
17 April 2009 to discuss ways their research data linking, data constraints and data uncertainty,
groups should collaborate, as well as to work on a he discussed the recent work from the database
conference bid led by South Australia to host research community on data provenance and
WWW 2014 in Adelaide. Prof Benatallah has been lineage.
invited to act as general chair. Prof Xiaofang Zhou is a Professor of Computer
Prof Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Science at the University of Queensland. He is the
visited Prof David Abramson at the Monash e‐ Head of the Data and Knowledge Engineering
Research Centre (MERC) from 18‐21 August 2009. Research Division at UQ, and the Convenor of
This visit included a virtual EII Steering Committee Australian Research Council (ARC) Research
meeting via Access Grid, a PhD confirmation Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure.
seminar, research visit to Prof Abramson’s His research focus is to find effective and efficient
MeSsAGE Lab, and the launch of Monash e‐ solutions for managing, integrating and analysing
Research Centre e‐XPO: Technological innovation very large amount of complex data for business
transforming research which featured Prof Larry and scientific applications. He has co‐authored
Smarr, (University of California San Diego, USA) as over 150 research papers with many published in
keynote speaker, as well as three days of top journals and conferences such as SIGMOD,
exhibitions and demonstrations highlighting a
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VLDB, ICDE, ACM Multimedia, The VLDB Journal,

ACM Transactions and IEEE Transactions. PhD FELLOWSHIPS
Geometric Spanner Networks Budget: $63,246.78
Speaker: Dr Joachim Gudmundsson, NICTA, This initiative supports PhD students to undertake
Sydney collaboration in a team of world‐class researchers
Date & Place: 16 April 2009, Theatre 3, ICT within an industry environment or at a different
Building, The University of Melbourne university, by providing travel support and a living
allowance for research visits of a few days up to 6
Dr Joachim Gudmundsson, NICTA, visited Drs Tony
months. Among many potential benefits of
Wirth and Egemen Tanin, at The University of
exchange of researchers, EII strongly believes that
Melbourne from 13‐17 April 2009. During this visit,
this is the most effective way to foster real and
he gave a presentation which received positive
mutually beneficial collaboration. EII Fellowships
feedback, especially among students.
expand and strengthen research scope and
Collaboration is currently underway between
experience, as well as broaden research contacts
these researchers.
for PhD students. This will help find possible thesis
In this talk Dr Gudmundsson gave an overview of referees for PhD students, as well as providing an
the most common construction algorithms, effective conduit between different supervisors
experimental results and how they can be used in and research groups within Australia.
many different application areas such as the
Visits to industry members like MSRA and SAP
construction of ad hoc networks and to help
greatly expand research scope and experience for
predict protein foldings.
young researchers beyond the familiar university
Dr Gudmundsson is a principal researcher at domain. These visits have been highly successful
National ICT Australia in Sydney, currently heading for both industry and the students, and 2009 was
the DMiST‐project. He is a member of the Sydney no exception.
Algorithms and Computational Thinking (SACT)
In 2009, the EII Fellowships scheme supported six
research group.
students to visit MSRA in Beijing, and SAP
He is a former member of the algorithms group at Research Labs in Brisbane while three students
the Faculty of Mathematics and Computing undertook inter‐university visits.
Science in Eindhoven, the Geometry Lab at the
Ms Manmeet Kaur Mahinderjit Singh [The
Department of Computer Science in Lund, Sweden
University of Queensland] is a PhD specializing in
and the Geometry, Imaging, and Virtual
data security. Supported by EII, she spent four
Environments group at the department of
weeks as a visiting student in the Information and
Information and Computing Sciences in Utrecht,
Networked Systems Security group at Macquarie
the Netherlands. Dr Gudmundsson is managing
University, Sydney, under the supervision of Prof
editor for Journal of Computational Geometry
Vijay Varadharajan.
(JoCG) and in the editorial board for the
International Journal of Computational Geometry She benefited a lot from the research activities at
and Applications (IJCGA). Macquarie University. She attended the weekly
group meeting and attended several discussions
with Dr Udaya Kiran Tupakula and Ms Aarthi
Nagarajan about defining various types of trust
components in trusted computing environments
such as physical, middleware and application
based trust. Prof Varadharajan provided Ms
Manmeet with advice on how to fill in the gap of
the trustworthy component in a ubiquitous
environment such as sensors like Radio Frequency
IDentification or RFID. She found the specific type
of trust which could be adapted to her main
research topic and developed her initial idea on
trustworthy computing in the context of RFID
system.
Ms Manmeet published one journal paper after
this visit, titled "Trust in RFID‐enabled Supply‐
Chain Management". This paper was accepted by
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the International Journal on Security and Network Finally, he conducted extensive experiments on

(IJSN) and will be published in 2010. two real‐world data sets and the results showed
the benefits of this approach for both data
Mr Xiaoxun Sun [University of Southern
requesters and providers. He is currently
Queensland] was funded by the EII‐SAP
extending this work into a journal article.
Fellowship program to visit SAP Research CEC
Brisbane on a part‐time basis from March 2009 to Impacts on research: Mr Sun was exposed to a
September 2009. During his 6 month internship, dynamic research process in SAP which is quite
the topic he investigated provided a platform to different from the university environment. On
guarantee the security and privacy in the internet occasions, there were brainstorming sessions,
of services. The objective was to apply techniques, involving the whole group, where the research
like securing databases and access control manager would throw a problem and ask
management, to improve the private everyone to come up with creative ideas. There
communications in various internet services. This was also weekly focus meetings for small groups
research was closely aligned with Mr Sun’s PhD of people working in similar areas, where issues
research on privacy preserving data sharing in and ideas were discussed. All these showed the
data mining environment. different group dynamics and how these could be
used to perform research.
Mr Sun gained valuable experience during the EII‐
SAP internship. Because SAP is an industry leader, Mr Sun enjoyed a new perspective on his research
he had the opportunity see real problems that during the internship. Working on a topic that was
exist in real life applications. The hands on related to his PhD research with a different group
experience with different projects improved his of people and opinions added a new twist to an
ability to solve real problems. SAP also has access old problem, opening him to new approaches to
to a very large scale real world data set. investigate.
Experimenting with such data set allowed him to Ms Yue Cui [The University of Newcastle] spent 3
apply his ideas in real world applications and this months as an intern at MSRA funded by EII‐MSRA
kind of approach to research was interesting PhD Fellowship program from March to June 2009.
because the experimental outcomes gave She joined Dr. Qi Tian’s Internet Media Group and
meaningful results, but it was also challenging investigated music video affective content analysis
because it dealt with real data sets which are research. The objective was to fill the emotional
more unpredictable than synthetic ones. Working gap between low level audio‐visual features and
with world class researchers at SAP was a valuable high level affective content in music videos.
experience for Mr Sun, because constructive
suggestions from SAP researchers broadened his Yue was grateful to EII for offering her this
research views and made him better understand opportunity to join a well‐known research group
the current research direction. and the experience greatly benefited her PhD
study. Dr Tian provided invaluable advice and
Research outcomes: Mr Sun completed one paper taught her how to find meaningful research topics
titled “Injecting purpose and trust into data at the commencement of the research period. She
anonymization”, which was published in the 18th developed her research skills and knowledge
ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge through regular discussions with her MSRA
Management (CIKM 2009), one of the most mentor. She was also inspired by communication
prestigious conferences in database management. with other interns and attended fortnightly group
The aim of this paper was to propose a much finer meetings and discussed a variety of topics which
level anonymisation scheme with regard to the broadened her views by understanding what
data requester's trust value and specific other researchers were doing. She also benefited
application purpose. Mr Sun and his co‐authors from presenting her own work. This three‐month
firstly prioritized the attributes for anonymisation internship had a long‐term benefit of establishing
based on critically they are related to the specified a network for Ms Cui with world class researchers
application purposes. Secondly, they proposed a in the field of multimedia.
trust evaluation strategy to quantify the data
requester's reliability based on the histories and Yue submitted two papers after the visit to MSRA
recommendations, and further build the and both are currently under review. One is titled
projection between the trust value and the degree ‘Correlation‐based Feature Selection and
of data anonymization, which determines to what Regression for Music Video Affective Analysis’,
extent the data should be anonymized. The submitted to IEEE International Conference on
decomposition algorithm was developed to find Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2010. The other one
the desired anonymous solution, which is ‘Music Video Affective Understanding Using
guarantees the uniqueness and correctness. Feature Importance Analysis’, submitted to ACM
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International Conference on Image and Video Ms Jue Xie [Monash University] was funded by
Retrieval (CIVR) 2010. the EII‐MSRA PhD Fellowship program to visit
Microsoft Research Asia, MSRA [Beijing] from May
Mr Zaiben Chen [The University of Queensland]
to August 2009. Within the 3 month research visit,
visited Microsoft Research Asia in Beijing from
she participated in the ubiquitous health (uHealth)
April to July 2009. Zaiben gained a very impressive
project, which aims to build user‐centric & data‐
and valuable experience during his stay in the
driven personalised eHealth applications and
Web Search and Data Mining research group,
services platform for improving people’s quality of
under the supervision of Dr Yu Zheng and Dr Xing
life and efficiency of treatment. Specifically, her
Xie who are world class researchers in web and
research topic lies in how personal health data can
database areas. What he learned from them is not
be ubiquitously collected through body sensor
only research skills, but also a broad view of how
networks, and then be smartly processed,
to sense the trend of future technologies and how
analysed, summarised and visualised to provide
to conduct meaningful work for industry.
seamless user experience.
During the visit, he got involved in one of the
Research outcomes: Jue contributed to the project
leading projects at Microsoft, Geolife, which
by applying data mining techniques to deliver
provides a platform for users to share and search
personalised daily reports for body‐state
trajectories over a huge database. Zaiben started
diagnostics and stress management. Within a
his research on trajectory searching based on this
short period of time, she developed an end‐to‐end
project and he touched a large scale dataset that
Client/Server‐based prototype system as the
he would hardly be able to know outside
concept demonstrator. Both PC and mobile clients
Microsoft. The gap between pure academic
were implemented to demonstrate two‐way data
research and industry always exists. Through the
transmission between server and client.
internship, he experienced a process of turning
ideas into commercial products and importantly a Impacts on research: Jue’s 3 month internship at
commercialization‐based research cycle. MSRA turned out to be a very rewarding
experience, through which she learnt how to
Working within such an innovative group
balance personal research interests with an
benefited Zaiben a lot. Daily discussions, group
industrial project’s timeline requirements, and
meetings, weekly seminars, etc., all led him deeply
how a piece of productive and qualitative research
into amazing research areas and triggered
can benefit from a researcher’s serious and
inspiration. With help from his mentors and
rigorous attitude towards work. Jue was strongly
colleagues, Zaiben undertook a solid study on a
influenced by MSRA’s “Push to the limit” slogan.
new problems regarding trajectory searching by
The 24‐hour lab facilities, dedicated team
multiple query locations, which is a new problem
members, and fast project timelines together
discovered independently. Under the guidance of
constructed a stimulating working environment
his mentors at Microsoft, Zaiben produced a high
which maximised her productivity and
quality research article about the work in just
performance.
three months. This work was completed smoothly
because of solid research guidance and strong Jue feels very lucky to have been involved in the
facility support. uHealth project, which will be extremely
meaningful to people’s daily life in the near future.
The research culture of Microsoft is outstanding.
She really enjoyed contributing to this real‐life
Employees are able to work under flexible
project with her skills and knowledge,
schedules, and everyone works hard and is happy
collaborating with talented team members,
to help. New ideas bloom everyday. Knowledge is
feeling inspired by leading researchers and
flowing within the Lab and you can always find
exchanging ideas with other young, energetic
something exciting to get involved in.
fellow interns. Her unique experience has been
Research Outcomes: Zaiben implemented a published in the MSR Asia Intern newsletter,
prototype for searching trajectories over a large which brought her invaluable friendship across the
database, and finished a paper that was accepted research centre.
by the 2010 ACM SIGMOD conference, which is
During Mr Basem Suleiman's [National ICT
one of the major international meetings in the
Australia] internship at SAP Research (Sydney
computer science area. He mainly devised a new
office) he gained new insights and experiences via
algorithm and optimization methods for
different research projects such as the Transport
processing trajectory queries and provided a
and Logistics Living Lab, Penny Pointer, Context‐
theoretical guarantee for the running efficiency,
aware Business Process Management (BPM) and
accompanied by extensive experiments on real
Enterprise Service discovery and consumption.
datasets.
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In the transport and logistics project he developed research paper which he hopes to submit it to the
very good business development skills by meeting BPM 2010 conference.
internal and external business stakeholders and
In the context‐aware business process
potential industry partners. The output of these
management project, Basem broadened his
meetings mainly identified key customer problems,
knowledge and experience on how to perform
potential research and business opportunities as
applied research. He worked with a senior
well as key technologies and market trends in the
researcher from Brisbane on preparing a research
Transport and Logistics field. Mr Suleiman also
roadmap for a relatively a new research area in
contributed in preparing different business cases
the BPM field. Particularly, they investigated and
and scenarios for the Transport and Logistics
defined the current business process management
Living Lab. The Living Lab, a joint project between
technologies in the service industry, identified
AP research, Fraunhofer, NICTA and several
potential research and business opportunities and
Australian logistic industries such as Australia Post,
an initial solution map and technologies that can
FedEx, Queensland Railway, will be launched this
be used to improve BPM through by leveraging
year. In addition, he contributed to the “SAP
context information.
Research Transport & Logistics Perspective” white
paper which will be published soon in SAP Recently, the project has been approved by
research reports and portal. internal SAP Research management in Brisbane as
an exploratory project for three months. Mr
This experience was exceptional for Basem as he
Suleiman is still involved in this project in 2010.
developed better understanding of business
The main goal of the project is to validate the
development management skills for establishing
identified requirements, understand customer
collaborative research projects between the
problems and identify research opportunities in
research community and industry. It has also
the field. The project will conclude with
expanded his business contacts. Similarly, he was
documentation of the requirements for context‐
involved in the Penny Pointer project, a personal
aware BPM and a solution roadmap of the
financial planning Web application.
required technologies to address the
The Enterprise Service discovery and consumption requirements. Depending on management
was a different experience. During this research decisions, the project may proceed into a bigger
project he investigated and analysed, jointly with project, probably with the SAP Netweaver BPM
another two SAP research associates, the design solution. In addition, they have drafted a white
methodology and principles of SAP enterprise paper that targets business users (SAP solution
services for different SAP solutions including ERP, management and customers) which discusses the
CRM and SRM (almost 2800 services.) This led to a key challenges, requirements and potential
better approach, to discover the enterprise approaches and technologies for context‐aware
service by SAP consultants and business users of BPM.
SAP partners given their minimal IT knowledge.
After the EII‐SAP Fellowship Mr Suleiman is
The solution aims at improving productivity of
currently working on his PhD research with both
composite application development through
SAP Research and NICTA. This is a great result
utilizing existing SAP enterprise services from
from the Fellowship because he now has access
various domains. His research group designed and
not only to various expertise in his research area
implemented proof‐of‐concept Web application
(both academic and industrial) but also to SAP
that realized their enterprise service discovery
industry partners who will be useful for evaluating
approach.
his research work. SAP research also gives Mr
Recently, they presented their approach to some Suleiman access to most of their software
solution engineers from SAP Netweaver solutions (both research and industrial) which
Composition Environment team. The project has allows better understanding of market and
also attracted attention of several researchers customer challenges and needs.
from Germany and the internal management of
Overall, it has been a great experience for Mr
SAP Research in Brisbane. As a result, a one year
Suleiman from a number of different perspectives,
collaborative project has been approved by all
gaining both practical skills through conducting
abovementioned parties and will start soon.
applied research, but also acquiring valuable
Even after his internship, Mr Suleiman is still business development skills. Working on different
collaborating with the SAP Research team in projects with different people has broadened his
Sydney and Brisbane regarding this project. They research horizons and sharpened his business and
are currently in the process of evaluating their industrial skills in the context of applied research.
prototype with SAP enterprise services
consultants and describing the results in a
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Dr Suan Khai Chong [Monash University] was accept a piece of text, and to identify the actors
funded by EII to visit Prof Jaga Indulska at from 16 and actions it describes.
February to 16 August 2009 at The University of
As a hub for visiting scholars from all around the
Queensland with the purpose of conducting
world, Microsoft Research Asia offers countless
collaborative research work in the area of wireless
opportunities to meet prominent researchers.
sensor network and context‐aware computing.
Daniel was able to make key links with members
The purpose of this visit was to research and
of the research community as they gave talks at
develop on commonalities between Khai's PhD
MSRA. Daniel himself gave impromptu talks on
research and the PACE middleware, network with
areas of his PhD research with particular relevance
the embedded computing group at UQ and target
to ongoing projects at MSRA, in addition to
one tier 1/2 conference publication.
regular presentations on the progress of his MSRA
During this visit, Khai worked with the Embedded project.
Systems group to explore the idea of enhancing
Development of the SRL system built by Daniel
the middleware for context‐aware applications
during his term at MSRA will be ongoing even
with solutions from sensor networks middleware
following his departure, with a view to integrating
to allow resource efficient and context‐aware
the system into his PhD work, which pertains to a
provisioning of information. In particular, Khai
Natural Language Understanding task for the
worked closely with Pei Hu to integrate resource
Chinese language. Furthermore, through his
efficient sensing into PACE through the use of the
continuing involvement, Daniel has worked to
rule‐based algorithm HiCoRE that was developed
establish collaborative links between The
from his PhD. This visit also gave Khai the
University of Sydney and Microsoft Research Asia.
opportunity to receive feedback about his
research work, for instance, how his approach can Mr Mahendra Piravaneen, The University of
be extended to work for multi‐modal sensors to Sydney/CSIRO, visited the Max Planck Research
be more applicable to existing context‐aware Institute, Germany, from 12 August to 12
middlewares. September 2009. The first part of the visit
involved the 2nd International Workshop on
The collaborative work done directly contributed
Guided Self Organization GSO'09, held in MPI,
to Khai's research as it enabled a demonstration of
Leipzig during 18‐20 August 2009. At this
the usefulness and applicability of the algorithm
workshop Mahendra gave a talk titled
which he developed during his PhD. Furthermore,
“Assortativity and information in directed
it has resulted in a PerWare 2010 publication. The
biological networks”. The abstract appears at the
work completed in the fellowship has shown that
end of this report.
the results obtained can be further generalised
and as well as revealing what areas warrant future During the visit to MPI, from 14 August to 14
work. September, Mahendra collaborated with his PhD
co‐supervisor, Dr Mikhail Prokopenko, who also
Mr Daniel Tse [The University of Sydney] was
visited MPI in August 2009. The collaboration
funded by the EII Fellowship program to
resulted in two papers [1, 2 listed below] that
undertake a four‐month research project hosted
investigate complex networks using a novel
by Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, from April to
measure (assortativity). Assortativity, r, is a
August 2009. He joined an ongoing high‐visibility
network‐level measure which quantifies the
project in the Natural Language Computing (NLC)
tendency of nodes to mix with similar nodes in a
group, focusing on the NLP task known as
network. Local assortativity, ρ, has been
Semantic Role Labelling (SRL). Daniel was able to
introduced as a measure to analyse the
leverage his existing knowledge in NLP techniques
contribution of individual nodes to network
and resources to build a modular end‐to‐end SRL
assortativity. One paper [1], under review,
component. Daniel was mentored by Prof. Ming
investigates a bias in the formulation of local
Zhou, a prominent researcher in the NLC group.
assortativity and shows that, after the bias is
Research outcomes: Daniel performed a literature removed, local assortativity ρ of a node can be
review reflecting the state‐of‐the‐art in SRL, interpreted as a scaled difference between the
selecting existing features and complementing average excess degree of the node’s neighbours
them with new features informed by linguistic and the expected excess degree of the network as
domain knowledge. Through his project, which a whole. Unbiased ρ, allows us to study the local
exposed him to the project planning of a large‐ assortativity profiles of a number of model and
scale NLP system, he integrated existing NLP and real‐world networks.
machine learning tools to build an end‐to‐end
Another paper [2], accepted by IEEE Transactions
system capable of solving the SRL problem: to
on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
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(impact factor 1.866), develops a background for

analysing mixing patterns in directed networks, PUBLICATIONS
introducing four novel measures: in‐assortativity,
rin, and out‐assortativity, rout, as well as local Book Production
quantities for in‐ and out‐assortativity: ρin and Budget: $11,000
ρout respectively. Several biological networks that Publication: Supporting Real Time Decision‐
have been previously classified as disassortative (r Making: The Role of Context in Decision Support
< 0) are shown to be assortative with respect to on the Move
these new measures. Publisher: Annals of Information Systems Series:
Subsequently, Mahendra participated in the 10th Special Volume in Decision Support Systems
European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 09), Guest Editors: Frada Burstein, Monash University,
held in Budapest, Hungary, from 14‐18 Patrick Brezillon, Univ Paris VI/France, & Arkady
September. Mahendra presented this work [3] in Zaslavsky, LuleaUT/Sweden
the conference. The talk was well received and he The EII funding has facilitated the preparation and
discussed possible avenues of collaboration with production of this book. The funding was partly
other participants. used to organise an international workshop of the
[1] M. Piraveean, M. Prokopenko, A.Y. Zomaya, Association for Information Systems Special
Classifying complex networks using unbiased local Interest Group on Decision Support, Knowledge
assortativity, EuroPhysics Letters, under review, and Data Management (SIGDSS) in conjunction
2009 with the premier Information Systems Conference
(ICIS) in Paris, on 13 December 2008. The funding
[2] M. Piraveenan, M. Prokopenko, A.Y. Zomaya, supported a research assistantship and partial
Assortative mixing in directed biological networks, travel support for the Chair of the event.
IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and
Bioinformatics, accepted, 2009 The review process is complete, and the
remainder of the funding will be used in 2010 to
[3] J. .T. Lizier, M. Piraveenan, D. Pradhana, M. complete the production of the book. It will be
Prokopenko, and L. S. Yaeger, "Functional and published by the end of 2010. There are 18
structural topologies in evolved neural networks", chapters planned to be included in the book based
European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL), on the presentations at the workshop as well as
2009. via an open call for papers and invited entries
from the experts in the field of context modelling,
Abstract: Assortativity and information in directed
mobile, real time decision support and emergency
biological networks. We analyse the relationship
management in particular.
between assortative mixing and information
content in biological networks which are typically The work on this book facilitated a wider exposure
directed. We develop the theoretical background for the team from Monash University to the
for analysing mixing patterns in directed networks international state of the art research in this area.
before applying them to specific biological It has also helped to improve the visibility,
networks. Two new quantities are introduced, international connections and collaboration for
namely the inassortativity and the out‐ authors contributing to the book. The EII funding
assortativity, which are shown to be useful in also created an opportunity to seek additional
quantifying assortative mixing in directed support from the University Paris VI, France. It
networks. We also introduce a general measure also allowed to showcase the outcomes of a
for information content in directed networks, Monash based ARC Linkage project in decision
followed by the 'out‐information' and 'in‐ support for efficient emergency management.
information' to quantify the information content
of out‐degree and in‐degree mixing patterns Joint Publications
respectively. We apply the measures introduced to A direct outcome of EII activities is a large number
a range of real world networks, demonstrating of joint publications by EII members published in
that out‐degree mixing patterns contain the major international journals and conferences in
highest amount of information in most real world their field. These collaborations often emerge as a
biological networks. result of attendance at EII events. Below are some
highlights from 2009.
Mr Xiaohui Zhao and Prof Chengfei Liu from
Swinburne University have two papers (one
published, one accepted) which have been
generated from involvement in EII activities. In
2007, they attended the EII Workshop on RFID
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Data Processing and Management. After that • J. Davis and S. Ganeshan, Aversion to Loss and

workshop, they held valuable discussions with Dr. Information Overload, Research paper,
Tao Lin, SAP Research, USA, who was invited by EII Proceedings of the International Conference
to give a presentation on RFID. Based on these on Information Systems (ICIS2009), Phoenix
discussions and follow‐up cooperative work, they AZ, December 15‐18, 2009.
conducted research on how to enhance business
• Stern and J. Davis, Under‐representation in
process automation by integrating RFID data and
Service level Agreements for Global IT‐centric
events:
Services, Proceedings of the Hawaii
• X. Zhao, C. Liu and T. Lin, Enhancing Business International Conference on Systems Sciences
Process Automation by Integrating RFID Data (HICSS2010), January 2010.
and Events, Proceedings of the 17th
• W. Wong and J. Davis, Collaborative Learning
International Conference on Cooperative
in Uncertain Environments, (Full) Paper
Information Systems (CoopIS 2009), pp. 255‐
presented at the International Workshop on
272, November 1‐6, 2009, Vilamoura,
Collaborative Agents ‐Research and
Portugal. Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Development (CARE2009), Melbourne, 1
5870 Springer.
December 2009.
• X. Zhao, C. Liu and T. Lin, Incorporating
• J. Davis and W. Wong, Effective Knowledge
Business Process Management into RFID‐
Sharing in Service Systems, IEEE International
enabled Application Systems, to appear in
Conference on Services Computing (SCC2009),
Business Process Management Journal.
Bangalore, September 20‐ 25, 2009.
In 2009 A/Prof. Minjie Zhang and Mr Fenghui Ren,
University of Wollongong, received financial • H. Lin, J. Davis, and Y. Zhou, Integrating
support from EII to attend the Data Sciences, Computational and Crowd‐Sourcing
Knowledge Discovery & Business Intelligence Approaches for Ontology Extraction,
Symposium in Sydney. Mr Ren, and two other presented at the Services, Knowledge, and
Wollongong students, also attended the EII PhD Grid (SKG) Conference (short paper), October
school for intensive research training. Their 12‐14, 2009, Zhuhai, China. (Proceedings in
attendance helped in the development of IEEE digital Library)
research publications, including the Best Student • H. Lin and J. Davis, An Integrated Approach to
Paper Award from PRIMA2009 in Japan. Extracting Ontological Structures from
• Fenghui Ren, Minjie Zhang, Chunyan Miao Folksonomies, Proceedings of the European
and Zhiqi Shen, A Market‐based Multi‐issue Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2009),
Negotiation Model Considering Multiple Heraklion, Greece, 31 May‐ 4 June 2009
Preference in Dynamic E‐marketplaces, Dr Hamid Motahari, HP Labs USA, is also an
PRIMA2009, Nagoya, Japan, pp. 1‐16, 2009. adjunct lecturer in the School of Computer
Best Student Paper Award. Science & Engineering at The University of New
• Dayong Ye, Quan Bai, Minjie Zhang, Khin Than South Wales. He visited the Services Oriented
Win, and Zhiqi Shen, An Efficient Task group from 26 November to 8 December 2008. As
Allocation Protocol for P2P Multiagent a consequence of this visit, he and Prof Boualem
Systems. IEEE International Symposium on Benatallah applied for a joint HP grant and also
Parallel and Distributed Processing with submitted a VLDB journal paper based on the visit.
Applications (ISPA 2009), Chengdu, China, The HP proposal was not successful but the
pp.11‐18, 2009. (ISPA is ranked “B” in ERA.) collaboration on publications continues.
• Qi Zhang, Yi Mu, Minjie Zhang, and Robert H.
Dang, Secure Mobile Agents with Designated
Hosts. The 2009 International Conference on
Network and System Security (NSS), IEEE, Gold
Coast, Australia, pp. 286‐293, 2009.
Prof Joseph Davis, The University of Sydney,
produced a number of publications in 2009 which
were related to his EII activities:
• G. Pandey, S. Chawla, S. Poon, and J. Davis,
Association Rules Network: Definition and
Applications, Statistical Analysis and Data
Mining, 1, 2009, pp. 260‐279.
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control systems, secure publishing techniques and
PhD SCHOOL ON secure broadcast for XML data; advanced RBAC
models and foundations of access control models;
DATABASES & trust negotiation languages and privacy; data
mining and security; multi‐strategy filtering
INFORMATION SYSTEMS systems for Web pages and sites; security for grid
computing systems; integration of virtual reality
16‐20 April 2009
techniques and databases; and geographical
St Leo's College, The University of Queensland,
information systems and spatial databases.
Brisbane Q
The first part of Prof Bertino’s PhD School lecture
Budget: $61,042.85
reviewed basic notions of access control and
Delegates: Appendix F presented the most significant models (DAC, MAC,
Feedback: Appendix G Chinese Wall, RBAC). The second part focused on
Program: Appendix H access control for relational database systems.
The access control of System R was presented
The series of EII Schools brings PhD students and
together with relevant extensions, such as
ECRs together with experienced researchers from
positive/negative authorizations and non‐
top institutions across the EII network and
cascading revoke operations. The third part
internationally to enhance and invigorate research
focused on access control for advanced data
education, and to improve their depth of
management systems, like complex object data
understanding of emerging and fundamental
management systems and XML data. The Author‐X
topics in ICT. The Schools offer an opportunity for
model was discussed in detail, including an
PhD students and other researchers to share and
encryption‐based access control model used for
discuss their research with peers and mentors,
push‐based information dissemination and an
and to start developing ideas and concepts into
architecture for secure‐third party publishing of
research papers for submission to major
XML data. The fourth part focused on privacy
international journals and conferences. The
issues in database systems and discussed access
experience also advances the development and
control models specifically tailored to privacy.
raises the standard of the students’ dissertations
and research publications in general. • Weak Isolation in Theory and Practice – Prof
Alan Fekete, The University of Sydney
The School was targeted at research students as
well as the general research community interested Prof Alan Fekete is Professor of Enterprise
in exploring current topics in the areas of spatial Software Systems within the School of
and metric data structures, and access control Information Technologies at The University of
systems, as well as an overview of foundational Sydney. He completed a PhD in Mathematics at
skills in database concurrency control and Harvard University in 1987, after an
research methods in computer science and undergraduate education in Computer Science
information systems. The presentations provided and Mathematics at Sydney University in
a broad understanding of different research Australia. He has been an academic in Computer
directions, insight into the challenges involved in Science at Sydney since 1988, and he has held
transforming research ideas into prototypes, visiting appointments at Cornell, MIT,
showed how research can create impact, and how UWashington and Microsoft Research. His
to conduct quality research and develop solutions research is focussed on the use of formal methods
that can be used in practice. The expert speakers to understand infrastructure systems software,
and topics included: especially database transaction management.
Fekete is recognized as a Distinguished Scientist
• Access Control Systems for Database Systems
by the ACM, he has served on program
‐ Prof Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA
committees for VLDB, SIGMOD and PODS, and he
Elisa Bertino is professor at the Department of has supervised 11 completed PhD students.
Computer Science, Purdue University and After a brief review of traditional concurrency
Research Director of the Center for Education & control, Prof Fekete’s lecture presented recent
Research for Information Assurance & Security discoveries about isolation mechanisms that are
[CERIAS]. Her research interests cover many areas called "weak" because they do not always ensure
in the fields of information security and database serializability. The final section covered the
systems. Her research combines both theoretical interactions between weak isolation and database
and practical aspects, addressing applications on a replication. Textbook treatments of database
number of domains, such as medicine and concurrency control concentrate on serialization
humanities. Current research includes: access theory and on locking or timestamp‐based
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implementations. In practice, few applications use Shirley Gregor is the ANU Endowed Chair in

these mechanisms because of their excessive Information Systems at the Australian National
impact on performance. Every common platform University, Canberra, where she heads the
provides as default behaviour, something less safe National Centre for Information Systems Research.
than serializable isolation. Indeed, in some of the Her current research interests include the
most widespread products, even declaring an adoption and strategic use of information and
application as "SERIALIZABLE" does not guarantee communications technologies, intelligent systems,
that this will happen; instead these platforms use human‐computer interface issues and the
a concurrency control mechanisms called philosophy of technology. Dr Gregor’s publications
Snapshot Isolation, which can lead to data include 4 edited books, 15 book chapters and over
inconsistencies. 100 papers in conferences and journals. Prof
• Good Research: Is it New? Is it True? Is it a Gregor was made an Officer of the Order of
Good Story? ‐ Prof Shirley Gregor, The Australia in the Queen’s Birthday Honour’s list in
Australian National University June 2005 for services as an educator and
researcher in the field of information systems and
Prof Gregor’s lecture aimed to help participants to in the development of applications for electronic
do the best research they can for their PhD and commerce in the agribusiness sector.
other work for publication. The workshop was
• Sorting in Space: A Foundation for
structured around the three important questions
Multidimensional and Metric Data Structures
that readers and reviewers of theses and articles
for Applications in Spatial Databases and
ask:
Similarity Searching ‐ Prof Hanan Samet,
1. Is it new? What does the research contribute to University of Maryland, USA
knowledge? What did I learn from this research
Hanan Samet is a world renowned and leading
that was not known before? Is it worth knowing?
authority on multi‐dimensional data. Delegates at
2.Is it true? Why should I believe what the author the PhD School were exposed to the immense
claims? breadth and depth of knowledge generated from
a lifetime of work dedicated to understanding the
3. Is it a good story? Does the researcher make his
algorithms of others and inventing major new
argument well? Is it clear and understandable?
algorithms and data structures.
To address each of these questions the lecture
In part one of his six hour lecture, Prof Samet
was divided into three components:
presented a foundation, based in part on
1. How to choose a good topic and place it against representation issues, for applications in spatial
existing literature. databases, which include geographic information
systems (GIS), and similarity searching. He started
2. How to choose an acceptable research method
with an introduction to the spatial database issues
and evaluate and justify your work. This
involved in the design of GIS from the perspective
component will involve some discussion of how
of a computer scientist. Some of the topics
the “scientific method” applies to Information
discussed included the nature of a GIS and the
Technology research.
functionalities that are desired in such systems.
3. How to structure theses and papers so your One of the major issues is the representation of
story is presented well. spatial data. A wide number of representations is
currently in use. Recently, there has been much
As with previous PhD Schools, the interaction
interest in hierarchical data structures such as
amongst participants led to very valuable cross‐
quadtrees, octrees, R‐trees, etc. The key
fertilization of ideas from computer science,
advantage of these representations is that they
information systems and other IT fields. Prof
provide a way to index into space. In fact, they are
Gregor subsequently presented a paper on a
little more than multidimensional sorts and this
related topic at the 4th International Conference
approach was central to his presentation. Prof
on Design Science Research in Information
Samet provided a brief overview of hierarchical
Systems & Technology, DESRIST'09, in Malvern, PA,
spatial data structures and related research
USA, 7‐8 May, and received the Herbert Simon
results. In addition he demonstrated the SAND
Award for Best Paper at the conference with a
Browser and the VASCO JAVA applet which
cash prize of US$1000. The ACM published paper
illustrate these methods.
was titled "Building Theory in the Sciences of the
Artificial". Research in this stream or work is In the second part of his talk, Prof Samet
ongoing and is continuing to be informed by the continued with a discussion of similarity searching
different views across the IT communities that are which is usually achieved by means of nearest
represented in the EII network. neighbour finding. Existing methods for handling
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similarity search in this setting fall into one of two EII to allow individual students to attend this

classes. The first is based on mapping to a low‐ event.
dimensional vector space which is then indexed
The overwhelming trend from feedback regarding
using representations such as k‐d trees, R‐trees,
individual lectures showed that many delegates
quadtrees, etc. The second directly indexes the
did not necessarily have strong background
objects based on distances using representations
knowledge in the specific topics, but the
such as the vp‐tree, M‐tree, etc. Mapping from a
presentations allowed both their understanding
high‐dimensional space into a low‐dimensional
and their interest to develop further with the
space is known as dimensionality reduction and is
majority indicating that the presentations were of
achieved using SVD, DFT, etc. At times, when
high quality and effective in provoking thought
there is just distance information, the data objects
and discussion. One of the aims of the School is to
are embedded in a vector space so that the
expose delegates to invigorating research ideas,
distances of the embedded objects as measured
and from delegate feedback, the four speakers
by the distance metric in the embedding space
certainly achieved that objective.
approximate the actual distance. The search in the
embedding space uses conventional indexing
methods which are often coupled with
dimensionality reduction. Some commonly known
POSTER PRIZES
embedding methods are multidimensional scaling, Budget: $1,189.83
Lipschitz embeddings, and FastMap. These topics
In 2009, EII was pleased to include Best Research
were discussed at varying levels of detail.
Poster Awards as part of the 2009 School. First,
In 2009, the school was once again designed to be second and third prizes were awarded, as well as
an intensive networking experience, and on this highly commended works. Delegates displayed
occasion, it was held directly prior to the 14th their current research in poster form during the
International Conference on Database Systems for event, and the winners were announced at the
Advanced Applications, DASFAA'09. This allowed special Research Poster session from 6.00 ‐
delegates access to a larger range of experts as 8.30pm Friday 17 April. Invited speaker, Prof
the students were able to attend the DASFAA Hanan Samet, acted as the main judge assisted by
tutorials and workshops for free, and were offered Network Convenor, Prof Xiaofang Zhou.
a substantially discounted conference registration
First Prize: Ms Tanzima Hashem, The University of
rate if they wished to attend the conference as
Melbourne
well. In conjunction with the DASFAA'09
Conference, the students were exposed to the Second Prize: Mr Mohammed Eunus Ali, The
following expert tutorials: University of Melbourne
• Top‐k algorithm and applications ‐ Dr Gautam Third Prize: Mr Mahdi Parsa, Griffith University
Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Highly Commended:
Ms Myung‐Hee Kim, The University of New South
• Techniques for efficiently searching in spatial,
Wales
temporal, spatio‐temporal, and multimedia
Ms Guohua Liang, The University of Technology,
databases ‐ Dr Matthias Renz, University of
Sydney
Munich, Germany
Mr Jiangang Ma, Victoria University
• Knowledge Discovery over deep Web, Mr Fenghui Ren, University of Wollongong
Semantic Web and XML ‐ Dr Aparna Varde, Mr V S Venkatesan, The University of Queensland
Montclair State University, USA Mr Shaoyi Zhang, The University of Melbourne
The delegates were surveyed on the general Special Book Prize – Foundations of Multi‐
quality of the School and as well as the individual dimensional and Metric Data Structures, Hanan
lectures. Overwhelmingly, delegates rated high or Samet, Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer
very high the scope of the information that the Graphics, 2006, USA: Mr Ryan Choi, The University
School covered, and that they had sufficient time of New South Wales
for networking and sharing ideas, and setting
foundations for further collaboration. The School
proved to be an inspirational experience for most
survey respondents. In regards to the general
organization of the event, the delegates rated high
or very high the quality of accommodation,
catering and classroom facilities, as well as
acknowledging the financial support provided by
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PUBLICATION PRIZE 2nd SINO‐AUSTRALIAN IT
Budget: $500 RESEARCH &
In 2009, EII funded the Best Paper Award for the
20th Australasian Database Conference, EDUCATION SUMMIT
Wellington, New Zealand, 20‐23 January 2009. Dr 26‐27 November 2009, Tsinghua University,
Sri Devi Ravana & Prof Alistair Moffat from The Beijing, China
University of Melbourne won this prize for their
Hosted by: National Natural Science Foundation
paper, Score Aggregation Techniques in Retrieval
of China [NSFC]
Experimentation.
Chair: Prof Sun Jiaguang, Vice President, NSFC,
and Dean, School of Information, Tsinghua
PROJECTS University
The University of Sydney Vice Chair: Prof Zhang Zhaotian, Deputy Director,
Budget: $11,550 Department of Information Sciences [NSFC]
EII supported the salary of a research assistant in Organized by: Tsinghua University, Peking
2009. The research project dealt with analysing University & Renmin University of China
two important questions related to the complex Co‐Chairs:
inter‐relationship between information • Prof Ke Liu, Director of Department of
technology investments and business value. In Computer [NSFC]
particular, the project studied the differential • Prof Sun Maosong, Head, Department of
impacts of hardware and software investments on Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua
value as measured by industry‐level value added. University
The project also investigated the
• Prof Mei Hong, Dean, School of Information,
complementarities in organisational practices and
Peking University
policies that enhance the contribution of
• Prof Du Xiaoyong, Dean, School of
software investments. A paper describing this
Information, Renmin University of China
research is currently under preparation and will be
• Prof Wang Jianmin, Associate Dean, School of
ready for submission by late April 2010.
Software, Tsinghua University
The University of Newcastle EII Budget Contribution: $5,098.30
Budget: $7,815.35
Delegates: Appendix I
EII supported the salary of a research assistant in Program: Appendix J
2009 on a project on Health Informatics. The
major objective in 2009 was to extract information Sponsors:
from pathology and radiology forms. Researchers National Natural Science Foundation of China
developed a document filtering algorithm which [NSFC]
can significantly improve form image. They Tsinghua University
compared the resulting algorithm by using the Peking University
available text extracting softwares on the Internet. Renmin University of China
In general, the text extraction improved by 12% ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information
after filtering. The project also focused on finding Infrastructure [EII]
a biomarker for identifying brain dementia. In the The main purpose of establishing this annual
extraction of brain structure, researchers Summit between the two countries is to enhance
identified sulcus distortion from segmentation. mutual understanding and research collaboration
The significance of the achievement is that among top IT research universities and
researchers have developed an effective brain organizations, to discuss common challenges,
mapping algorithm which will help to find opportunities and strategies, and to share
biomarkers for different dementia. experiences in building world‐class institutes for IT
The project also developed a "digital patient" for research and higher education.
training pharmacology students. It includes a Expected outcomes include opportunities for joint
talking avatar and an intelligent answer engine. research projects and centres (with funding from
The system is currently being deployed in three Australian and Chinese Governments and other
universities, Newcastle, Monash and CSU, for funding agencies), schemes for exchanging
evaluation in Semester one 2010. research students and staff, linked programs for
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PhD students, and policy development to enhance Adelaide served as co‐chairs for the three keynote
IT research and educational collaboration speeches.
between China and Australia. The Summit’s
The first invited speaker, academician of the
Organization Committee decides on key themes
Australian Academy of Sciences, Prof Rao Kotagiri
and topics for discussion at the Summit each year.
from the University of Melbourne, spoke on the
At the first summit meeting, it was agreed by all Data Rich Society and Challenges, and presented
attendees that this forum should be established as the Australian efforts in the face of massive
in annual event, to be held in China and Australia information challenges. The second invited
in alternative years. The Second Sino‐Australian speaker, Prof Jianzhong Li from Harbin Institute of
ICT Research and Education Summit was held Technology, spoke on Massive Data and Data
from 26‐27 November in Beijing, China, hosted by Intensive Super Computing, and described in detail
National Natural Science Foundation of China some current technical lack of resolve regarding
(NSFC), and supported by Tsinghua University, massive data management, and put forward the
Peking University and Renmin University of China. need for the development of the data‐intensive
Forty‐five Deans/Heads/Professors attended the super computing systems [DISCS] platform, as well
2009 summit, made up of 16 participants from as some of the challenges and fundamental
Australia and 28 delegates from China. research questions involved. Two well‐known
scholars at the Summit unanimously chose
The Australian delegation was led by the
“massive data” as the topic which attracted the
Australian Research Council’s (ARC) Executive
greatest participant response. The third invited
Director of Mathematics and Physics and
speaker, Prof Huaiming Wang from the University
Information Engineering, Prof Richard Colemen.
of Defense Technology, spoke on Software in
Prof Xiaofang Zhou from The University of
Internet Age in China. Prof Wang's presentation
Queensland [UQ] served as coordinator on the
focused on the internet scale application, and
Australian side. Heads of ICT Schools from the
introduced some of China’s major research
Group of Eight [Go8] universities in Australia,
programs and the results of system development
leaders from the ARC and the National ICT
in the middleware areas.
Australia [NICTA] as well as leading professors
from the Go8 took part in the 2009 Summit. Panel Discussion: Research opportunities and
Sino‐Australia collaboration in the areas of web
The 28 strong Chinese delegation was led by Prof
scale software and data management techniques
Jiaguang Sun, academician, and Vice Director of
NSFC. The participants included Deans and Co‐Chairs: Prof Li Mingshu, Director of the
professors from various Schools of Information Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of
and Computer Science from various 985 Sciences, and Prof Mark Wallace, Monash
universities. University
Prof Jiaguang Sun [NSFC] presented the Summit’s Panellists: Prof Xiaofei Xu, Harbin Institute of
welcome address in which he pointed out some of Technology, Prof Jingling Xue, The University of
the major challenges in current information, New South Wales, Prof Yanchun Zhang, Victoria
science and technology research and education. University, Prof Aoying Zhou, East China Normal
Prof Xiaofang Zhou [The University of Queensland] University, Prof Tom Gedeon, The Australian
then reported on the first Summit held in Australia National University, and Prof Jianmin Wang,
in 2008. Prof Richard Colemen [ARC] introduced Tsinghua University
the ARC’s mission and project funding schemes
The theme of the discussion was the challenges in
while Prof Zhaotian Zhang, Vice Director of the
massive data management and software
Department of Information Sciences of NSFC,
technologies in the internet era, and possible
introduced the National Natural Science
mutual research cooperation. As a consequence of
Foundation of China. This introductory session
this discussion, delegates expressed great interest
was followed by each of the delegates presenting
in working further on problems and issues in data
a brief 3 minute overview of their respective
management brought about by data‐intensive
institutions.
applications, and plans were discussed to promote
A research focused session was conducted in the bilateral cooperation on this point.
afternoon of 26 November, consisting of two
The Education Session was conducted in the
parts: a keynote speech and a panel discussion.
morning of 27 November, and also consisted of
Prof Hong Mei, Dean of School of Information of
two parts: keynote speeches and a panel
Peking University, and Prof David Suter, Head of
discussion. Prof Alistair Moffat, Dean of School of
School of Computer Science of The University of
Computer Science and Software Engineering of
The University of Melbourne, and Prof Jianmin
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Wang from Tsinghua University served as co‐ programs between the two countries. Prof Paul
chairs for the keynote speeches. Bailes [UQ] and Prof Hai Jin [Huazhong] will co‐
chair this project. The second taskforce will look at
Prof Paul Bailes, Head of the School of Information
developing proposals and securing funding for
Technology and Electrical Engineering at The
joint research projects. Prof Rao Kotagiri [MELB]
University of Queensland spoke on Making
and Prof Xiayong Du [Renmin] will co‐chair this
Lemons into Lemonade: Implications for Teaching
initiative.
in a Research‐Intensive University. He focused on
analysing the mutually reinforcing relationship As with the first meeting, the 2009 Summit
between teaching and research in research continued in‐depth discussions about personnel
universities, and the measures of how to balance training, current research areas of common
teaching and research. Prof Xiaoming Li from interest as well as possible cooperation in
Peking University, spoke on Understanding education and research. It was agreed that the
Undergraduate Computing Education in China. He Summit is playing an important role in
described and analysed the status and the strengthening the Sino‐Australian information
problems of computer education in China and technology and education communications,
presented some valuable ideas about how to promoting bilateral substantive cooperation, and
change the status. improving Sino‐Australian international influence
in the international field of information
Panel Discussion: The cultivation model of
technology.
computing talents in liberal education –
challenges and countermeasures. The focus of the Pre and Post Summit Activities: The Australian
discussion was on general education and delegation also visited several well‐known
undergraduate computer science students – universities and research institutions in Beijing
issues and strategies. before and after the meeting. They visited Peking
University and Tsinghua University respectively in
Co‐Chairs: Prof Xiaofei Xu, Harbin Institute of
the morning and afternoon of 25 November, and
Technology and Prof Paul Bailes, The University of
Renmin University of China in the late afternoon
Queensland
of 27 November. During the visit in Tsinghua
Panellists: Prof Yuxi Fu, Shanghai Jiaotong University, some research teams from department
University, Dr Guido Governatori, NICTA, Prof of computer science and school of software such
Zhiyong Peng, Wuhan University, Prof Bingbing as Transparent Computing and Cloud Computing,
Zhou, The University of Sydney Next Generation Internet and IP‐V6 routers,
Multimedia and Human‐machine Interface,
This session resulted in a wide‐ranging discussion
Computer Graphics, Databases and Semantic Web
about undergraduate education in the computer
presented some extremely impressive
science and explored the following issues:
demonstrations of their research progress.
• Liberal, classified or professional education?
• More computer science fundamental The delegation also visited Microsoft Research
knowledge or more IT technical training? Asia [MSRA] in the afternoon of 27 November,
• Approaches to cultivate computing talents and were welcomed by the Managing Director of
• How to enhance creativity and innovation in MSRA, Dr Hsiao‐Wuen Hon, who gave the opening
CS and IT students? presentation. This was followed by technical talks
• Education collaboration models between and discussions led by senior researchers at MSRA,
Chinese and Australian universities including:
In the final session, Prof Hai Jin, Huazhong Dr Eric Chang, Director of Technology Strategy
University of Science and Technology and Prof whose responsibilities include research program
Xuemin Lin, The University of New South Wales communication, IP portfolio management, and
co‐chaired a discussion session to establish a 985‐ driving new research themes; Dr Feng Zhao,
Go8 IT Research & Education Summit Steering Assistant Managing Director who oversees
Committee. This committee will oversee working systems, wireless and networking, hardware
groups to develop initiatives like joint project computing, and media communications; Dr. Wei‐
proposals such as dual‐doctorate degrees. Ying Ma, Assistant Managing Director who
investigates Web Search and Data Mining, Natural
The 2009 meeting elected Prof Alistair Moffat Language Computing, and Human Computer
[MELB], Prof Xiaofang Zhou [UQ], Prof Xiaofei Xu Interaction; Dr Hang Li, research manager of the
[Harbin] and Prof Maosong Sun [Tsinghua] as the Information Retrieval and Mining Group at MSRA;
Steering Committee for the third Summit, to be and Dr Xing Xie, lead researcher in spatial data
held in Australia in October 2010. Two taskforces mining, location based services, and mobile and
were established. One will investigate dual PhD pervasive computing.
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universities in the Asia Pacific region. The

SPONSORSHIPS workshop actually broadened the community of
interested academics to a global scale. While
Budget: $45,201.75
many professors—representing universities from
In 2009, EII sponsored a number of events by China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and Australia—
providing travel subsidies to a range of funded by Microsoft's University Relations team
researchers ‐ PhD students through to senior staff got an opportunity to present their work and, in
and international experts – to attend major many cases, to provide leadership as part of the
conferences, schools and workshops, as well as program committee, the event also attracted
providing funding for prizes, and conference faculty members from the United States and
dinners. The Network also assisted relevant events Europe.
by publicizing the event to Network participants.
These sponsorships are part of EII’s mission to 14th International Conference on
build a spirit of mutual sharing and collaborative Database Systems for Advanced
research by facilitating the interaction of
researchers in conference, master class and Applications, DASFAA’09
workshop events. 21‐23 April 2009, Brisbane Q
Sponsorship: Travel subsidies for Keynote
International Workshop on Speakers and Student Delegate Bursaries, and
workshop support.
Location Based Social Networks,
LBSN’09 DASFAA is an annual international database
conference, located in the Asia‐Pacific region,
3 November 2009, Seattle USA, in conjunction
which showcases state‐of‐the‐art R & D activities
with the Association for Computing Machinery’s
in database systems and their applications. It
17th SIGSPATIAL International Conference on
provides a forum for technical presentations and
Advances in Geographic Information Systems
discussions among database researchers,
Sponsorship: $500 & travel subsidies
developers and users from academia, business
Program: Appendix K
and industry.
MSRA Newsletter: Appendix L
The Data Quality Management Taskforce, led by
This workshop is one outcome from EII’s
Dr Shazia Sadiq, coordinated a major international
collaboration with Microsoft Research Asia
Workshop on Data Quality and Provenance
[MSRA]. Prof Xiaofang Zhou, The University of
Management in conjunction with DASFAA’09. For
Queensland, collaborated with Dr Xing Xie, MSRA,
full details, refer to the “Workshops” section in
to organize this meeting. The great potential of
this report.
this research area has been recognized by MSRA,
and a report on the workshop appeared as a EII sponsorship facilitated the attendance of three
frontpage feature article in their monthly keynote speakers: Dr David Lomet, Microsoft
newsletter [Appendix L]. Research Labs USA, Prof Elisa Bertino, Purdue
University USA and Dr Rob Vertessey, Australian
The objective of this workshop was to provide a
Bureau of Meteorology.
single forum for researchers and technologists to
discuss the state of the art, present their The EII sponsorship also enabled the award of four
contributions, and set future directions in travel bursaries for Australian students, and five
emerging innovative research for location‐based bursaries for international research students, as
social networks. Of four parallel workshops held well as supporting three best paper awards.
during the conference, LBSN drew the most
Winners of DASFAA student travel bursaries:
attendees. During the larger conference, the
workshop was cited as the “most successful” of Australia/NZ
those associated with the conference. The Steven Burrows, RMIT University, Melbourne
workshop attracted 33 international registrants, Ryan Hyun Choi, The University of New South
and there were opportunities for discussions and Wales & National ICT Australia, Sydney
interactions during the workshop. With the MingJian Tang, La Trobe University, Melbourne
increasing popularity of smartphones, researchers Rui Zhou, Swinburne University, Melbourne
believe that LBSN will provide a fresh frontier to
International
explore new research topics. While held in Seattle
Fengrong Li, Nagoya University, Japan
to gain more impact by its association with the
Ji Wu & Shili Xiang, National University of
SIGSPATIAL conference, the workshop actually
Singapore [shared prize]
supports Microsoft Research Asia’s theme of
Heejung Yang, KAIST, Republic of Korea
Internet Services in its collaboration projects with
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Junfeng Zhou, Renmin University of China definition video. These students recently

undertook research internships in Australia, Japan
DASFAA 10+ Best Paper Award: Server ranking for
and New Zealand, working with established
distributed text retrieval systems on the Internet.
research groups, and their presentations covered
Budi Yuwono and Dik Lun Lee. DASFAA'97.
their achievements over the 2008/2009
Best Paper Award: Probabilistic Inverse Ranking (Northern) summer.
Queries over Uncertain Data. Xiang Lian and Lei
Prof Kevin Burrage, from Oxford and The
Chen
University of Queensland, discussed some of the
Best Student Paper Award: Efficient RFID Data mathematical techniques underpinning the
Imputation by Analysing the Correlations of models. Prof Peter Hunter, from the University of
Monitored Objects. Yu Gu, Ge Yu, YueGuo Chen Auckland, discussed his group's long established
and Beng Chin Ooi research in cardiac modelling and the physiome
project. The workshop was of interest to a wide
ACM Symposium on Information, range of researchers from physiology, computing,
Computer and Communications mathematics, biochemistry, pharmacy and
bioengineering.
Security (ASIACCS 2009)
10‐12 March 2009, Novotel Rockford Darling The Keynote speaker, Prof Peter Hunter, is
Harbour, Sydney currently a Professor of Engineering Science and
Sponsorship: Symposium Banquet Director of the Bioengineering Institute at the
University of Auckland, Director of Computational
To build on the success of ACM Conference on Physiology at Oxford University and holds
Computer and Communications Security (CCS) and honorary or visiting Professorships at a number of
ACM Transactions on Information and System Universities around the world. He is on the
Security (TISSEC), the ACM Special Interest Group scientific advisory boards of a number of Research
on Security, Audit, and Control (SIGSAC) formally Institutes in Europe, the US and the Asia‐Pacific
established the annual ACM Symposium on region. As the current co‐Chair of the Physiome
InformAtion, Computer and Communications Committee of the International Union of
Security (ASIACCS). ASIACCS 2009 was the fourth Physiological Sciences he is helping to lead the
conference of the series. international Physiome Project which aims to use
computational methods for understanding the
Cardiac Modelling Workshop integrated physiological function of the body in
2 October 2009, Building: 26, Seminar Room 135,
terms of the structure and function of tissues,
Clayton campus, Monash University
cells and proteins.
Sponsorship: Travel subsidies for Keynote
Speakers, Prof Peter Hunter, Auck/NZ, and Prof This presentation by Prof Hunter was also part of
Kevin Burrage, The University of Queensland. the Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative (VERSI)
Life Science series of which the Victorian Life
Presenters:
Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI) is a keen
Prof Peter Hunter, University of Auckland; Dr
participant.
Peter Arzberger, Chairman PRAGMA; Anna Pham,
UCSD; Amir Shirkhani, UCSD; Ramya Chitters, Workshop on Management &
UCSD; Scott Revelli, UCSD; Prof Kevin Burrage, UQ
and Oxford Mining OF Uncertain Data
This workshop was arranged by Message Lab and
[MOUND’09]
the Monash eResearch Centre. Researchers have 29 March 2009, Shanghai China
been developing complex models of the cardiac Sponsorship: Travel subsidy for Keynote Speaker,
system for many years, in an attempt to explore Dr Sunil Prabhakar, Purdue University, USA
the detailed physiology and operation of the heart. The goal of the 1st workshop on Management and
Ultimately, the goal is to produce better mining Of UNcertain Data (MOUND 2009) was to
treatment strategies and to develop novel drugs investigate key issues related to the data
for treating heart disease. The work is management and mining over uncertain data.
underpinned by a range of mathematical Specifically, the workshop explored uncertain data
techniques, drawing on high performance management issues such as data representation,
computing to produce accurate models. various types of queries, and indexes. It also
This workshop presented recent work from a covered the new data mining techniques on data
range of international researchers. Four short cleaning, clustering, and classification over
presentations by UC San Diego undergraduate uncertain data.
students were delivered from California by high
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Sunil Prabhakar is an Associate Professor of Information and Systems: 22 ‐ 24 July 2009,
Computer Sciences at Purdue University, USA. His Rydges World Square, Sydney
current research interests are in uncertain This one‐day conference provided delegates with
databases, sensor and streams databases, data opportunities to hear timely and practical
privacy, and scientific databases. He is a recipient information security case studies from the public
of the NSF CAREER award. He serves on the sector.
editorial board for the Distributed and Parallel
• KM Australia from Diverse Perspectives: 4‐7
Databases Journal and has served on the program
August 2009, Crystal Palace Luna Park, Sydney
committees for leading database conferences
• Information Architecture: 29‐30 September
such as VLDB, SIGMOD, and ICDE.
2009, Rydges World Square, Sydney
Colloquium on Data Sciences, • Strategic Business Process Management: 12‐
15 October 2009, Melbourne
Knowledge Discovery and Business
Intelligence 2009 Winter School in
7‐11 July 2009, University of Technology Sydney Mathematical and Computational
Coordinators:
• Data Sciences and Knowledge Discovery Lab,
Biology
6 ‐ 10 July 2009, Queensland Bioscience Precinct,
UTS Priority Centre for Quantum
The University of Queensland, Brisbane
Computation and Intelligent Systems
Coordinators: ARC Centre of Excellence in
• School of Software, Faculty of Engineering
Bioinformatics & Institute for Molecular
and Information Technology, University of
Bioscience
Technology, Sydney
Sponsorship: $1,000 plus travel subsidies for
• Research Centre for Data Science, School of
student delegates
Computer Science, Fudan University
Feedback: Appendix P
Sponsorship: Travel subsidies for delegates
Feedback: Appendix M As in previous years, EII continues to assist
student delegates to attend this outstanding
This five day international colloquium provided a
winter school which is designed to introduce
comprehensive forum for industry and
mathematical and computational biology and
government practitioners, vendors and business
bioinformatics to advanced undergraduate and
solution providers, and academics and students to
postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers
exchange knowledge, skills, capabilities and
and others working in the fields of mathematics,
lessons to promote the best and most actionable
statistics, computer science, information
use of latest knowledge and techniques in the
technology, complex systems analysis, and
real‐world enterprises, as well as lead to new
biological, chemical and medical sciences and
opportunities for practice‐based innovation and
engineering. The Winter School is structured to
development, in an cross‐disciplinary, cross‐
present one important topic each day. Each day
domain, and cross‐country manner.
consists of a mixture of extended lectures,
Ark Group Events software demos, and interactive discussions.
Coordinators: Ark Group Australia Pty Ltd Leading national and international lecturers have
Sponsorship: Publicity through EII Networks been selected for their ability to make their topic
accessible to and exciting for a non‐specialist
• Data Quality Asia Pacific 2009: 24 ‐ 26 March audience.
2009, Crystal Palace, Luna Park Sydney

Drawing on the experience of leading data experts
and practitioners, this event investigated the
latest advances in data quality, master data
management, data warehousing, and business
intelligence, and provided delegates with an
integrated approach to data and information
management.
• Managing Metadata and Classification
Schemes: 24 ‐ 26 June 2009, Sydney
• BPM: Insights and Practices for Sustained
Transformation: 1 ‐ 2 July 2009, Perth
• Public Sector Information Security:
Enhancing the Security of Government
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One outcome of this workshop is the possibility to
TASKFORCES explore mobile navigation in urban environments
EII Taskforce projects have been a major jointly with researchers at the Swinburne
mechanism for EII to support emerging research University of Technology.
opportunities. Several taskforces have achieved
The main taskforce activity planned for 2010 is an
remarkable outcomes with a relatively small
international workshop to be held in Sydney in
amount of funding (typically no more than 50K in
late August. This will be attended by
total, including institutional cash contributions).
approximately 20‐25 invited researchers who
Below are reports from taskforces currently
work in the area of IT investments and business
underway in 2009, as well as some highlights over
value (ITBV) including three keynote speakers. It
the past year from Taskforces started between
is expected that a selected set of final papers
2005 and 2007. The benefits of significant
based on the discussions at the workshop will be
research collaboration generated from the
edited and published as an edited book.
taskforce activities continue to reverberate well
after their major activities have been completed.
Taskforce on Trust in Distributed
Taskforce on Understanding and Information Infrastructures
Extracting Value from Information [TRUST]
Technology Investments [VALUE] Commenced: August 2008
Commenced: June 2008
Coordinator: Prof. Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie
Coordinators: University
Prof Joseph Davis, The University of Sydney
Taskforce Team Members
Prof Shirley Gregor, The Australian National
Prof. Xiaofang Zhou, UQ
University
Prof. K. Rao, UniMELB
Budget 2009: $7,053.22 Prof. Shirley Gregor, ANU
Delegates: Appendix N Prof. Yanchun Zhang , VU
Feedback: Appendix O Prof. Boualem Benatallah, UNSW
Dr. Michael Hitchens, MQ
In 2009, the Taskforce on Understanding and
Dr Kerry Taylor, CSIRO
Extracting Value from Information Technology
Dr John Zic, CSIRO
Investments co‐organized the Workshop on
Interacting with Information Technologies with Budget 2008‐10: $28,500
the CSIRO ICT Centre in Hobart Tasmania. Held on
Unfortunately the commencement of Taskforce
30 November 2009, the Organizing Committee
activities have been delayed. However, there have
included Christopher Lueg (University of Tasmania,
been a couple of peripheral events related to this
CIS Dept.), Shlomo Berkovsky (CSIRO TasICT
taskforce that happened in 2009. There was an
Centre), Aaron Quigley (University of Tasmania,
exchange of a student researcher, Ms Manmeet
HIT Lab.)
Kaur Mahinderjit Singh [The University of
EII funded the workshop's catering and dinner, as Queensland] who visited Macquarie University’s
well as provided travel subsidies for the INSS Research Group to work on Trust in RFID
international Keynote, Prof Michael Twidale, enabled Distributed Infrastructures from 20
University of Illinois Urbana‐Champaign, USA, and February – 20 March 2009. The Macquarie
Australian based researcher, Prof Marcus Foth University INSS Research Group organized and
from the Queensland University of Technology, chaired an international ACM Symposium on
both well known researchers in information Information, Computer and Communication
systems and human‐computer interaction:. Security 2009 at Sydney with international
keynote speakers on Trustworthy Systems. EII
Besides the keynote talks, the workshop included
sponsored the Symposium banquet.
seven talks from researchers and graduate
students from CSIRO, University of Tasmania, Plan for 2010
Swinburne University of Technology, and The For 2010, the scope and the focus of the Taskforce
University of Sydney. A number of specific follow remains the same. In fact, given the current
up activities that were planned include navigation trends in cloud computing, the research issues
studies in collaboration with Swinburne being addressed in this Taskforce have become
University's library (building upon Honours even more significant.
student, Matt D'Orazio's presentation) and a
possible joint ARC Discovery grant.
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The original outline plan also remains valid in that from The University of Queensland’s Vice‐

the intention is first to have a couple of smaller Chancellor’s Strategic research Fund to support
group meetings addressing different aspects of data quality research via the project “Managing
trust in the digital economy and large scale Data Quality in Next Generation Information
distributed information infrastructures ranging Infrastructure”. This project which will commence
from trust in data, trust in service provision, trust in 2010 aims to investigate key issues in
in decision making, different types of trust as well developing new information infrastructure to
as different trusted authorities. Following these manage large‐scale, data‐intensive information
initial smaller group meetings, the plan is to have systems, advocating a holistic approach for data
a one‐day workshop. acquisition, integration and utilization with a
particular focus on data quality management. A
Hence we envisage smaller group meetings in
set of software tools and methodologies are
August/September 2010 with the one‐day
expected to be developed from this project.
workshop in November 20 10.
This taskforce also coordinated a major
Taskforce Scope
international Workshop on Data Quality and
The main focus of the taskforce work will be to
Provenance Management as part of the 14th
have in‐depth brainstorm and research
International Conference on Database Systems for
discussions on aspects related to the modelling,
Advanced Applications, DASFAA’09, in April 2009.
design and management of trust in distributed
For full details, refer to the “Workshops” section
information infrastructures. Specific issues
in this report.
include how to model and design large scale
dynamic trustworthy systems, the types of trust Further activities to build the data quality
policies that are needed, how to capture and community will be undertaken in 2010. This
reason about dynamic changes in policies, includes an effort towards outreach with industry,
techniques for trust policy management in including both the user organizations as well as
distributed information infrastructures, and how data quality vendors in order to build the
to provide users a trust enhanced experience. community as well as to assimilate a collection of
related material (case studies, contacts, events
Taskforce on Data Quality etc). Some participants have been identified but
more are expected. Industry membership and
Management [DQM] feedback will be complimented by international
Commenced: July 2008 experts in research and academia to develop deep
understanding of issues and challenges, as well as
Coordinators: to validate key findings solicited from outreach
A/Prof Shazia Sadiq, The University of Queensland activities.
Dr Ke Deng, The University of Queensland
In addition, through related activities and projects,
Budget 2009: $1,561.42 a comprehensive set of tutorial materials were
The A key objective of this task force was to developed and presented at two leading
provide a critical and constructive evaluation of international academic conferences: the 10th Asia
the current state of the art. Towards this end, the and Pacific Web Conference (APWeb 2008), the
following main outcomes have been achieved. 9th International Conference on Web Information
Systems Engineering (WISE 2008). Additionally a
In 2009, a comprehensive database was master class workshop was presented to an
constructed from over 10 years of publications in industry audience at the Ark Group DQ Asia Pacific
major CS and IS journals and conferences. It 2008 conference. We are currently exploring
consists of over 1100 articles together with a opportunities to convert this material and
classification scheme that provides a meaningful experiences into a professional development
taxonomy to understand the landscape of data program. Results of the task force activities as
quality research over this period. A developer was mentioned above will be instrumental in this
employed and the database was plugged into a regard.
"Data Quality Management Community Portal"
that provides search functionality in addition to a Activities of the task force have had an impact on
number of other functions. The portal will be the maturity of understanding and visibility of
launched in early 2010. The portal is designed to associated members, especially early career
build a community of practice on data quality researcher, Dr Ke Deng, who has been successful
research and practice. in obtaining an ARC postdoctoral Fellowship to
research Context Exploration: An Effective Way to
Taskforce senior mentor, Prof Xiaofang Zhou, Enhance Duplication Detection.
secured a total of $640,000 funding over five years
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Taskforce ON Business Process Taskforce on Network Analysis &

Management [BPM] Visualization [NAV]
In 2009 two members of the BPM taskforce – As a consequence of the initial taskforce workshop
A/Prof Shazia Sadiq and Dr Marta Indulska, held in November 2005, on‐going collaborations
continued the analysis of data that was collected amongst workshop participants have continued
in 2008 with the support of EII funding. In this year into 2009. The main success of this taskforce in
software licences that were made possible by EII 2009 has been the successful continuation of a
funds have been put to further use to analyse number of cross‐disciplinary collaborations. Other
existing Information Systems and Computer achievements include invited talks at international
Science research relating to process compliance. conferences, academic visits, journal/conference
publications, and student co‐supervision.
The outcomes of the two activities, as well as the
Highlights of ongoing research collaboration
insights gained through the compliance
include:
management interviews carried out in 2008, have
resulted in three high quality publications (as Prof. Dr. Falk Schreiber (IPK, University of Halle,
below), including a journal paper in an industry Germany), Prof. Dr. Dirk Koschützki (TFH
journal. In addition, one journal paper is currently Furtwangen, Germany), Assoc Prof. Seokhee Hong
undergoing revisions and one proposal for an (USYD), Dr Kai Xu (CSIRO), and Mr David Fung
Information Systems Research (ERA A*) journal (USYD) have continued collaboration on new
paper is currently under review. methods for visualisation of overlapping biological
networks. A conference paper has been published:
With the help of EII funding, the process
David Cho Yau Fung, Seok‐Hee Hong, Dirk
compliance management project was significantly
Koschützki, Falk Schreiber, Kai Xu, “Visual Analysis
progressed at the beginning of 2009 to have
of Overlapping Biological Networks”, Proceedings
attracted a PhD student. Mr Norris Syed Abdullah
of the 13th International Conference on
is now a confirmed PhD candidate who continues
Information Visualisation (IV 2009), pp. 337‐342,
to work in this area.
IEEE, 2009.
Further to these outcomes, Dr Sadiq, and Dr
Dr Rohan Williams (ANU), Assoc Prof. Seokhee
Indulska, have submitted an ARC Discovery
Hong (USYD) and Dr Kai Xu (CSIRO) have
proposal together with A/Prof Michael zur
collaborated on new methods for visualisation of
Muehlen (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA).
gene ontology networks. A conference paper has
The proposal proposes to investigate process
been published: Kai Xu, Rohan Williams, Seok‐Hee
modelling practices for compliance management.
Hong, Qing Liu, and Ji Zhang, "Semi‐Bipartite
• Indulska, M., Sadiq, S. (2008): The Compliance Graph Visualization for Gene Ontology Networks",
Enabled Enterprise ‐ Process is the Product. Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium
Compliance and Regulatory Journal, Issue 5, on Graph Drawing (GD'09), LNCS, Springer, to
2008, pp. 27‐33. appear.
• Syed Abdullah, S.N., Sadiq, S., Indulska, M. Prof. Hiroshi Nagamochi (Kyoto University, Japan)
(2010): Emerging Challenges in Information and Assoc Prof. Seokhee Hong (USYD) have
Systems Research for Regulatory Compliance continued their research collaboration on graph
Management. To appear in Proceedings of drawing algorithms since the initial workshop in
22nd International Conference on Advanced November 2005. In 2009, Nagamochi and Hong
Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'10), published or received notification of acceptance
June 9‐11, 2010 (accepted on 4 February, of 3 journal papers and 1 conference paper:
2010).
• Seok‐Hee Hong and Hiroshi Nagamochi,
• Syed Abdullah, S.N., Indulska, M., Sadiq, S. “Upward Star‐Shaped Polyhedral Graphs”,
(2009): A Study of Compliance Management Proceedings of the 20th International
in Information Systems Research, In Symposium on Algorithms and Computation
Proceedings of 17th European Conference on (ISAAC 2009), pp. 913‐922, LNCS, Springer,
Information Systems (ECIS’09), Verona, Italy, 2009.
2009. • Seok‐Hee Hong and Hiroshi Nagamochi, “New
Approximation to the One‐sided Radial
Crossing Minimization, Journal of Graph
Algorithms and Applications (JGAA), 13(2), pp.
179‐196, 2009.
• Seok‐Hee Hong and Hiroshi Nagamochi,
“Convex drawings of hierarchical planar
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graphs and clustered planar graphs, Journal of • Prof. Marc Wilkins (UNSW), Assoc Prof.

Discrete Algorithms, to appear. Seokhee Hong (USYD) and Mr David Fung
• Seok‐Hee Hong and Hiroshi Nagamochi, “An (USYD)
algorithm for constructing star‐shaped • Dr Rohan Williams (ANU), Assoc Prof.
drawings of plane graphs, Computational Seokhee Hong (USYD) and Dr Kai Xu (CSIRO)
Geometry Theory and Applications, to appear. • Prof. Hiroshi Nagamochi (Kyoto University,
Prof. Hiroshi Nagamochi (Kyoto University, Japan), Japan) and Assoc Prof. Seokhee Hong (USYD)
Dr. Kazuya Haraguchi (Ishinomaki Senshu • Prof. Hiroshi Nagamochi (Kyoto University,
University, Japan) and Assoc Prof. Seokhee Hong Japan), Dr. Kazuya Haraguchi (Ishinomaki
(USYD) have continued their research Senshu University, Japan) and Assoc Prof.
collaboration on visual classifier. In 2009, Seokhee Hong (USYD).
Nagamochi, Haraguchi and Hong published or
received notification of acceptance of three
Taskforce on RFID Data Processing
conference papers: & Management [RFID]
Since the RFID Taskforce workshop in August 2007,
• K. Haraguchi, S.‐H. Hong, H. Nagamochi, various collaborations have been developed and
“Bipartite graph representation of multiple strengthened. In 2008, Dr Xue Li and Prof Xiaofang
decision table classifiers”, Proceedings of the Zhou, The University of Queensland, successfully
5th Symposium on Stochastic Algorithms, applied for a joint International Project from the
Foundations and Applications (SAGA 2009), Chinese Government on RFID Platforms
Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume Integration with Prof Zhanhuai Li in China
5792, pp. 46‐60, 2009. Northwest Polytechnical University for 1.1 Million
• K. Haraguchi, S.‐H. Hong, H. Nagamochi, RMB. One ARC Discovery Project grant application
“Visualization can improve multiple decision on RFID, proposed by Dr Michael Sheng,
table classifiers”, Proceedings of the 6th University of Adelaide, was also successful.
International Conference on Modeling
Decisions for Artificial Intelligence (MDAI The on‐going collaborations amongst workshop
2009), IEEE, pp. 41‐52, 2009. participants have continued into 2009, with the
• K. Haraguchi, S.‐H. Hong, H. Nagamochi, successful continuation of a number of
“Multiclass visual classifier based on bipartite cross‐disciplinary collaborations. Other
graph representation of decision tables”, achievements include the organization of
Proceedings of Learning and Intelligent international workshop, guest editing of journal
OptimizatioN (LION 2010), LNCS, Springer, to special issues, as well as journal/conference
appear. publications. In 2009, this taskforce was involved
in the following major professional activities:
In 2009, student co‐supervision continued
amongst researchers who initially met at the • The 3rd International Workshop on RFID
November 2005 workshop: Technology (IWRT 2009), Milan, Italy, May 6‐7
2009, organized by Dr Michael Sheng.
PhD student, Mr David Fung (USYD), is jointly • Special Issue on Advances in RFID Technology
supervised by Assoc. Prof. Seokhee Hong (USYD) at Information Systems Frontiers, Springer, by
and Prof. Marc Wilkins (UNSW). David produced a Dr Michael Sheng, Sherali Zeadally, Zongwei
new method that visualizes protein to protein Luo, Jen‐Yao Chung, and Zakaria Maamar.
interaction networks according to cell
compartments and bioprocesses. A journal paper In 2009, the RFID taskforce generated a number of
has been submitted to a bioinformatics journal. publications as a result of collaboration amongst
the RFID Workshop participants:
Mr. David Fung, jointly supervised by Assoc. Prof.
• Damith Ranasinghe, Quan Z. Sheng, Sherali
Seokhee Hong (USYD), Kai Xu(CSIRO) and Prof.
Zeadally (eds). “Unique Radio Innovation for
Marc Wilkins (UNSW), has submitted his PhD
the 21st Century: Building Scalable and Global
thesis on Visual analysis of Biological networks in
RFID Networks”, Springer.
2009.
• John P.T. Mo, Quan Z. Sheng, Xue Li, Sherali
The following cross‐disciplinary/international Zeadally (2009), RFID Infrastructure Design: A
linkages have continued to be fostered in 2009 by Case Study of Two Australian National RFID
the taskforce: Projects, Internet Computing (IEEE), Jan/Feb
Issue 2009, pp.14‐21.
• Prof. Dr. Falk Schreiber (IPK, University of
• Quan Z. Sheng, John Mo, and Li Jiang.
Halle, Germany), Prof. Dr. Dirk Koschützki
Internet‐Enabled Supply Chains. In The
(TFH Furtwangen, Germany), Assoc Prof.
Handbook of Technology Management.
Seokhee Hong (USYD) and Dr Kai Xu (CSIRO)
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Editor: Hossein Bidgoli. John Wiley and Sons, HITLab Australia and The Australian National
Inc. 2009. University. The proposal is an direct outcome of
• Xue Li, Jing Liu, Quan Z. Sheng, Sherali networking at the HxI‐HCSNet workshops in
Zeadally, and Weicai Zhong. (2009) TMS‐RFID: Sydney in 2007 and the EII‐HCSNet workshop in
Temporal Management of Large‐Scale RFID Sydney in 2008 (which was co‐organized by the
Applications, International Journal of Taskforce).
Information Systems Frontiers, Springer, July.
2009. Taskforce on Context Aware
• Quan Z. Sheng, Aikaterini Mitrokotsa, Sherali Computing [CAC]
Zeadally, Zakaria Maamar (Eds.) Proceedings
of the Third International Workshop on RFID Budget 2009: $20,241.88
Technology: Concepts, Applications, In 2009, this Taskforce funded a visit by Dr Joao
Challenges (IWRT 2009), May 6‐7, Milan, Italy, Gama, University of Porto, Portugal. Prof Gama's
2009. visit has led to joint publications, international
• Manmeet‐Mahinderjit Singh and Xue Li (2009) workshop organisation, book editing and
Trust Framework for RFID Tracking in Supply international tutorial presentations between
Chain Management, Proc of The 3rd researchers from Monash University and
International Workshop on RFID Technology ‐ University of Porto. Moreover, there is on‐going
Concepts, Applications, Challenges (IWRT discussion of Monash University participating in
2009), Milan, Italy, 6‐7 May 2009. FP7 projects in Europe collaboratively with
researchers from the University of Porto. The
Taskforce on Mobility & Accessing specific outputs are as follows:
Information Infrastructure [MAII] • Vatsavai R., Omitaomu O., Gama J., Chawla N,
This Taskforce funded Michael Twidale's visit to Gaber M. M., Ganguly A. (Eds), Knowledge
the University of Tasmania in November/ Discovery from Sensor Data, Lecture Notes in
December 2009, after previous successful visits Computer Science (LNCS), 2009
over the last three years. Collaboration between
Prof Chris Lueg's group at the University of • Omitaomu O., Ganguly A., Gama J., Vatsavai
Tasmania with Prof Twidale and the University of R., Gaber M. M., Chawla N., Proceedings of
Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC) is very Third International Workshop on Knowledge
productive. As a consequence of this international Discovery from Sensor Data (Sensor‐KDD '09),
linkage, Prof Lueg was elected Research Fellow of held in conjunction with KDD 2009.
the Graduate School of Library and Information
• Gama J., Ganguly A., Omitaomu O., Vatsavai R.
Science (GSLIS) at the UIUC for the 2009‐2011
and Gaber M. M. (Eds), Knowledge Discovery
period. Prof Lueg also plans to spend some of his
from Data Streams, Intelligent Data Analysis,
study leave at UIUC later in 2010.
Volume 13, Number 3, 2009, pp. 403‐404, IOS
Profs Lueg and Twidale are also hoping for an Press, ISSN 1088‐467X (Print) 1571‐4128
opportunity for a joint ARC international linkage (Online).
grant. A research project looks promising in the
• Vatsavai R., Omitaomu O., Gama J., Chawla N,
museum informatics area (one of Prof Twidale's
Gaber M. M., Ganguly A., Introduction to the
areas of expertise) but it is too early for more
Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data,
concrete details to be announced.
Vatsavai R., Omitaomu O., Gama J., Chawla N,
Prof Lueg is enjoying a successful ongoing Gaber M. M., Ganguly A. (Eds), Knowledge
collaboration with Charles Darwin University (via Discovery from Sensor Data, Lecture Notes in
an interactive art forum held in Alice Springs) Computer Science (LNCS), 2009 (to appear).
which was made possible by MAII Taskforce
• ACM SAC 2010, Krishnaswamy, Gaber and
funding.
Gama "Mining Ubiquitous Data Streams:
Taskforce team member, Dr Nic Bidwell, James From Theory to Applications" ‐ Joint Tutorial
Cook University, was funded by the Taskforce to
After the successful vacation studentships
establish a connection with Gary Marsden,
covering projects in the general area of context
University of Capetown, South Africa, who was in
aware computing in 2008, the Taskforce
Hobart during her visit in 2007. This connection
continued with this scheme in 2009 with one
provided input to an ongoing UTAS community
Winter Studentship, Abhijat Sinha, and four
engagement grant.
Summer projects [Kim Goh, Ranjani Nagarajan,
Prof Lueg recently submitted an ARC DP proposal Abhijat Sinha, and Aidan Steele] supported by EII.
worth ~700k linking the University of Tasmania,
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at Edith Cowan University, to attend the 17th

TRAVEL SUBSIDIES European Conference on Information Systems,
ECIS’09, 8‐10 June Verona Italy. She presented the
Budget Total: $2,613.18
paper: McManus, P., Standing, C., Zanoli, R. (2009).
In 2009, this scheme provided travel assistance for A preliminary Laddering Analysis on Mobile
PhD students and early career researchers to Services, Proceedings of the European Conference
attend major meetings in their domain. The on Information Systems.
following students and research staff received
travel subsidies from EII: EII supported Dr Shah Jahan Miah’s [Griffith
University] attendance at the 5th International
Mr Zhen Henry Ye [The University of Conference on Semantics, Knowledge & Grid,
Queensland] was provided with a partial travel SKG'09, 12‐14 October 2009, Zhuhai China. At this
subsidy to visit the CSIRO ICT Centre in Canberra meeting, Dr Miah shared his research findings and
from November 2009 ‐ February 2010 . gathered new views on the current knowledge
The overall objectives of the visit included: 1) to management issues of climate change, with both
be familiar with the work of his associate the Chinese and International researchers,
supervisor, Dr Athman Bouguettaya and the Web including Prof Hai Zhuge, Chinese Academy of
Service group, 2) to develop a survey paper on Sciences and Prof Christian S. Jensen, Aalborg
Web service composition approaches, and 3) to University, Denmark. He established contacts with
implement a chosen Web service composition other researchers in the area which has enriched
approach. his understanding of the field and opened up
possibilities for future collaboration, as well as
Research outcomes: During this visit, Henry assisted in developing knowledge and strategies
implemented a semantic Web service composition to produce top quality publications.
algorithm that composes Web services to fulfil
complex requirements automatically. Henry is
completing a literature survey on different
approaches for Web service composition and
plans to submit the work to a journal.
Impact on research: The environment of CSIRO is
different from that in universities with CSIRO
focusing on both industrial implementation and
academic research. This visit helped Henry gain
familiarity with the work in CSIRO, and to network
with different kinds of researchers and engineers.
Working on a topic that is closely related to his
research within a hardworking group gave him a
new perspective on his research.
Mr Waiho Wong [The University of Sydney] was
supported by EII to present at the Collaborative
Agents Research Workshop held in conjunction
with the 22nd Australasian Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, AI '09, 1‐4 December 2009 in
Melbourne. The experience was an
overwhelmingly positive one for this young
researcher because a number of attendees were
highly experienced and reputable experts. Mr
Wong received constructive feedback on his work
especially when potential pitfalls were brought to
his attention. He also learned of new methods and
software, and of new research fronts. In addition,
his attendance provided the opportunity to share
his experience with early stage PhD participants.
On the whole he believes that his attendance has
allowed significant progress in his research.
For 2009 EII supported, Ms Patricia McManus,
PhD candidate at the University of Western
Sydney, and co‐supervised by Prof Craig Standing
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WORKSHOPS Workshop on Video Search
Date & Place: 30 October 2009, School of
Workshop on Interacting with Information Technology & Electrical Engineering,
Information Technologies
Date & Place: 30 November 2009, CSIRO Organizer: Dr Heng Tao Shen, The University of
Auditorium, CSIRO ICT Centre, Hobart TAS Queensland
Organizing Committee: Budget: Local arrangements for Keynote Speakers
Prof Christopher Lueg, University of Tasmania In 2007, EII supported Dr Shen’s Australia‐China
Dr Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO TasICT Centre Fund application entitled "Effective and Efficient
Dr Aaron Quigley, University of Tasmania Indexing for Real‐time Video Search", by
Budget: $7,053.22 confirming funds to host this 2009 workshop. EII’s
support contributed to Dr Shen’s success in
Delegates: Appendix N gaining this grant.
Feedback: Appendix O
This initiative brought leading researchers in the
This event was organized as an activity of the area of real‐time video search to The University of
Taskforce on Understanding & Extracting Value Queensland for a workshop and research
from IT Investments [VALUE]. meetings with staff and research students. As well
The goal of the workshop was to bring together as keynote speeches from the invited experts, Dr
researchers interested in human‐computer Yong Rui, Microsoft Research Asia [MSRA], and
interaction, information science, and user Prof Changsheng Xu, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
modelling and discuss how these areas could two University of Queensland students, Mr Yang
inform each other. Questions of interest ranged Yang and Mr Jianjun Liu, also presented their work
from general questions regarding the in this domain. At the end of the program, Dr
understanding, modelling and supporting of Heng Tao Shen ran a demo of UQLIPS: a real‐time
information behaviours in specific contexts to very near‐duplicate video detection and retrieval
specific topics in Web information interaction: system which has been released for trial. UQLIPS
how to best model and interpret user behaviour, had previously won the Highly Commended Open
how to convert user models into systems design Award 2007 in Trailblazer 5 by UniQuest in
and user interfaces, how to evaluate those recognition of the commercial potential of this
systems, and how to assess social and business early‐stage research.
impacts. Invited Speech 1: Learning Concepts by Modeling
The all day workshop included two keynote talks Relationships, Dr Yong Rui, MSRA: Supporting
from well known researchers in information multimedia search has emerged as an important
systems and human‐computer interaction: research topic. In recent years, the annotation
Professor Michael Twidale (University of Illinois at paradigm has developed which can automatically
Urbana‐Champaign) and A/Prof Marcus Foth detect/annotate concepts in unseen multimedia
(Queensland University of Technology). Besides content. This talk argued that within the
the keynote talks, the workshop included seven annotation paradigm, the relationship‐based
talks from researchers and graduate students annotation approach outperforms other existing
from CSIRO, University of Tasmania, Swinburne annotation approaches, because individual
University of Technology, and the University of concepts are considered jointly instead of
Sydney. Overall, the workshop attracted 20 independently. Dr Rui used two examples to
participants and the informal format sparked lively illustrate the argument. The first involved image
and fruitful discussions across disciplinary annotation and the second, video annotation.
boundaries. Dr Yong Rui is currently a Director of Microsoft
The organizers and the interstate / overseas China’s R&D Group. From 1999‐2006, Dr Rui was
attendees met again for the workshop dinner to the research manager and senior researcher of
continue discussions of topics that emerged the Multimedia Collaboration team at Microsoft
during workshop presentations. A number of Research, Redmond, USA. Dr Rui is widely
specific activities that were planned include recognized as a pioneer and a pacesetter in image
navigation studies in collaboration with Swinburne and video analysis, indexing, and retrieval. This
University's library (building upon Matt D'Orazio's recognition arises from his extraordinary
presentation) and a possible joint ARC Discovery contributions to multiple aspects of his area of
grant. research from the fundamental framework, to
algorithms, and to practical solutions. His most
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distinctive contribution is in establishing a From Selecting a Topic to

paradigm‐shifting relevance feedback framework
in image indexing and retrieval, which has led to Publishing a Paper: Data &
the establishment of a whole new research field. Knowledge Engineering Research
Dr. Rui’s other distinctive contribution is in the
semantic‐level video analysis, indexing and
Group Workshop
tracking. These semantic‐based schemes include Date & Place: 4 August 2009, School of
constructing table‐of‐content (ToC) for videos, Information Technology & Electrical Engineering,
multi‐label video classification, and joint audio‐ The University of Queensland
visual tracking via probabilistic sensor fusion. Dr. Organizer: Dr Zi Helen Huang, The University of
Rui holds 39 issued and pending US and Queensland
international patents in the above research fields.
Budget: $2,533.66
Invited Speech 2: Sports Video Semantic Analysis
This workshop was organized to help new PhD
and Personalization, Dr Changsheng Xu, Chinese
students to understand how to start their
Academy of Sciences: In this talk, Dr Xu focused on
research, in particular, how to select a research
research and technical achievements in sports
topic and publish a paper. Three senior
video analysis and applications in recent years. He
researchers were invited to share their own
first covered feature extraction methods in sports
experiences and thoughts. This workshop also
video, particularly focusing on some novel mid‐
offered an opportunity for PhD students to share
level/semantic features that he has developed for
and discuss their research problems with peers
sports video analysis. He then introduced event
and mentors. The invited speakers included: Prof
detection approaches in sports video and
Ke Yi [Hong Kong University of Science &
highlighted a semantic event detection method by
Technology], Prof. Ah Chung Tsoi [Monash
combining the analysis and alignment of web‐
University] and Prof Yanchun Zhang [Victoria
casting text and broadcast sports video. He
University].
concluded his talk by introducing two applications
of sports video analysis: sports video tactic Prof Ke Yi is currently an assistant professor in
analysis and personalized music sports video department of Computer Science and Engineering,
generation. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
As well as presenting a seminar at The University
Changsheng Xu is a Professor in the National
of Queensland on 3 August, his contribution to
Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of
this workshop was entitled How Theory Drives
Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is
Database Research.
also Executive Director of China‐Singapore
Institute of Digital media. His research interests Prof Ah Chung Tsoi is the foundation Director of
include Multimedia Content Analysis, Image the e‐Research Centre at Monash University, and
Processing, Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, is currently Vice‐President [Research &
and Digital Watermarking. He has published over Institutional Advancement] at the Hong Kong
180 refereed book chapters, journal and Baptist University. His workshop presentation
conference papers in these areas. He is a Senior focused on How to Carry Out Research and Get
Member of IEEE and Member of ACM. Ahead with Publications.
Prof Yanchun Zhang shared his experience on
Publishing Research Papers with the workshop
delegates. He is currently a full Professor and
Director of Centre for Applied Informatics
Research at Victoria University.
As well as the three senior mentors, the program
also included a talk on Concerns & Ideas for New
PhD Students, by PhD student, Mr Zaiben Chen,
The University of Queensland, as well as a
presentation about the transition From a PhD
Student to Postdoc from early career researcher,
Dr Jie Shao, The University of Melbourne. Dr Heng
Tao Shen, The University of Queensland, also
offered a short talk on How to Write a Paper.
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Workshop on Data Quality and
Provenance Management
Date & Place: 20 April 2009, In conjunction with
the 14th International Conference on Database
Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA’09,
The University of Queensland 2010 is a challenging year for EII, as it is a year of
post‐ARC funding and will be the final year for EII
Organizing Committee: to be in full operation. As EII funding was delayed
Dr Shazia Sadiq, The University of Queensland by about six months, and it took longer than
Dr Xiaochun Yang, Northeastern University, China expected to finalize institutional contracts and to
Dr Ke Deng, The University of Queensland get the culture of collaboration underway, EII
Prof Xiaofang Zhou, The University of Queensland activities reached a high point throughout 2008
Budget: See DASFAA sponsorship and 2009, with many activities still underway in
2010. It was a strategic decision by EII’s Steering
This workshop was organized by team members Committee in late 2008 to extend EII in its full
from EII’s Data Quality Management Taskforce. It capacity to the end of 2010, and to seek other
provided a forum to bring together diverse funding opportunities (especially via the next
researchers and make a consolidated contribution round of the ARC’s Centre of Excellence scheme).
to new and extended methods to address the We also decided that should the attempt to
challenges of data quality in collaborative settings. secure ARC CoE funding be unsuccessful, we
As well as presentations of research papers, the would allow ongoing EII activities to run their
workshop organized an industry keynote: Why natural course into 2010, and the Steering
businesses are not interested in data quality Committee agreed to work on maintaining EII, in a
presented by Dr Ken Self, Finance Operations, The much reduced capacity, beyond 2010.
Shell Company of Australia Limited. Dr Ken Self is
the Data Process Owner in Royal Dutch Shell. In EII’s attempt to establish an ARC Centre of
this role he is responsible for sustaining and Excellence for Data Rich Society did not pass the
improving processes that deliver top quartile data expression‐of‐interest [EOI] phase, as we were
quality to Shell's businesses globally. informed in February 2010. EII’s Steering
Committee will seek more feedback from the ARC
Poor data quality is known to compromise the about our EOI, and at the same time, work on
credibility and efficiency of commercial as well as refining and further strengthening this bid to get
public endeavours. Several developments from us ready for future rounds of CoE applications. We
industry and academia have contributed believe we have identified a number of key
significantly towards addressing the problem. research areas and problems that are crucial to
These typically include analysts and practitioners the future of Australia as a smart economy, and
who have contributed to the design of strategies we have amassed a very strong team of top ICT
and methodologies for data governance; solution researchers in Australia with a proven track record
architects including software vendors who have of collaboration. We will continue to pursue the
contributed towards appropriate system opportunity of working together and making a
architectures that promote data integration and; significant contribution to Australia’s ICT research
and data experts who have contributed to data development an adoption.
quality problems such as duplicate detection,
identification of outliers, consistency checking and As stated in the funding agreement with the ARC,
many more through the use of computational subject to the approval from the ARC, we can
techniques. The attainment of true data quality continue to carry the title of ARC Research
lies at the convergence of the three aspects, Network beyond the funding period of 2004‐2009.
namely organizational, architectural and We will apply for this naming right to prepare EII
computational. for this transition in 2010. The exact future form
of EII and specific funding opportunities are yet to
be explored, but a number of activities will
definitely be continued, such as the annual EII PhD
school and the EII communication channels
including its website and mailing lists.
Therefore, the three key strategies for planning EII
activities in 2010 include: (1) to prepare EII as a
committed and well‐organized research network
providing real benefits for its members beyond
2010; (2) to support ongoing activities started in
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previous years to completion; and (3) to trial Similarly, the specific Fellowship schemes funded
those activities EII wishes to continue beyond from the Network contributions from Microsoft
2010 in a new and sustainable way (without ARC Research Asia [MSRA] and SAP, will also continue
funding). into 2010. After a competitive process, these
Fellowships are awarded to top Australian PhD
Our currently planned activities are described in
students to undertake three to six month research
this section. However, other approved activities
internships with MSRA in Beijing, or SAP in
will emerge during the year initiated by members.
Brisbane or Sydney.
These activities will mainly be funded by the
Network’s institutional cash contributions. PhD School 2010
The 2010 School will be held from 28 June to 2
ONGOING ACTIVITIES July at the Kioloa campus of The Australian
National University. The themes for this year’s
A number of EII activities will continue into 2010
event are “Clouds, Services, and Data Quality”
because of their success in past years:
involving an increased number of expert speakers,
1. Annual general meeting to celebrate what EII as well as invited presentations from young active
has achieved, and to motivate EII members to researchers within the EII network. The School will
continue collaboration in the future. once again be run in conjunction with an ECR
2. PhD School and activities for ECRs. workshop.
3. International visiting experts.
4. Fellowship scheme for PhDs which facilitates Publication Prizes
research visits between universities and with In 2010 EII will continue to support prizes for best
industry. papers at various major conferences.
5. EII announcement email list and the web,
with further investment to ensure a low‐ Research Visits/Seminars by
maintenance system that can be operational International Experts
beyond 2010. This is a highly successful activity which provides
6. Taskforces. crucial exposure about cutting edge research
7. Focused collaborative workshops, especially directions from the primary sources themselves.
on those topics and for those nodes which are This kind of interaction benefits the diverse range
likely to maintain close collaboration in the of EII members, from senior researchers through
future. to students commencing their PhDs. Confirmed
visits so far in 2010 include:
Annual Meeting of Network
• Dr Xing Xie [Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing]
Members April 2010, The University of Queensland &
EII plans to schedule the next annual meeting of The University of Melbourne
Network members in December 2010. This • Prof Fabio Casati [Trento University, Italy]
meeting will celebrate the difference that EII has CSIRO ICT Centre, Canberra, and The
made over the last 5 years, and will showcase University of New South Wales
research highlights from the Network’s members.
• Prof Jeffrey Xu Yu [Chinese University of Hong
Industry Linkages Kong] Swinburne University
EII will provide seed funding to develop ARC • Mr Cristhian Daniel Parra Trepowski [Trento
Linkage Grant proposals and to assist with University, Italy] Jan‐Mar 2010, The University
establishing industry linkages. of New South Wales
• Prof Ganesh Ramakrishnan [IIT, Mumbai,
Internships at Monash University India] February 2010, Monash University,
The Taskforce on Context Aware Computing will Melbourne
host student interns over an 8‐10 week period • Prof Dov Te'eni [Bar‐Ilan University, Israel]
during Summer and Winter vacations, 2010, to February 2010, The University of Sydney
work on projects initiated by the Taskforce. • Dr Kate Kaiser [Marquette University, USA]
February 2010, The University of Sydney
PhD Fellowships • Dr Deva Seetharamakrish [IBM India Research
This highly successful scheme which facilitates Laboratory] March 2010, Monash University
inter‐university collaboration through short and • Dr Anna Sher [University of Oxford, UK] Mar‐
longer term research visits and exchanges will Apr 2010, Monash University
continue in 2010. • Prof Peter Scheuermann [Northwestern
University, USA] Apr‐May 2010, The
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University of Melbourne & The University of finding at an international ICT conference at Bled,

Queensland Slovenia. Dr Crips will build in a research visit to
• Prof Kevin Warwick [University of Reading, research partners in Finland. In addition, they are
UK] March 2010, The University of Sydney planning to develop a case study by gathering data
• Prof Wei‐Chang Yeh [National Tsing Hua in Finland on the use of ICT in the healthcare
University] April 2010, The University of sector.
Newcastle Prof Boualem Benatallah, The University of New
• Prof Tianzi Jiang [Chinese Academy of South Wales, is collaborating on a project with a
Sciences] August 2010, The University of postdoctoral researchers in Germany, Italy and
Newcastle France. EII will support visits in both Australia and
• A/Prof Qi Tian [The University of Texas at San Europe to help bring the project to its final stages.
Antonio] November 2010, The University of
Newcastle Prof Jesse Jin, The University of Newcastle, will
• Dr Navendu Vasavada [Programming attend PCM 2010 to submit a progress report for
Applications Consultant, USA] Mar‐Apr 2010, hosting the Pacific‐Rim International Conference
The University of Sydney on Multimedia 2011 in Australia..
• Prof Fatos Xhafa [Technical University of
Catalonia, Spain] April 2010, The University of
Workshops
Sydney The specialist focused research workshop has
been a major success story for EII, and already for
• Prof Youakim Badr [National Institute of
2010 a number of events are being planned:
Applied Sciences, France] May 2010, The
University of Sydney After a successful event in 2008, The Australian
National University will organize another
Sponsorships Information Systems Foundation (ISF) Workshop
In 2010, EII will continue to sponsor various on 30 September and 1 October. The Theme will
conferences, workshops and other meetings of be "Theory Building".
significance for our members. EII’s sponsorship
usually ranges from assistance with publicity of an The National ICT Australia [NICTA] is planning a
event through to cash sponsorships or financial local workshop for PhD students. This event
support for keynote speakers. would be run with possible co‐sponsorship from
organizations like the Victorian Life Sciences
EII will contribute $5,000 to the upcoming 21st Computation Initiative [VLSCI].
Australasian Conference on Information Systems
(ACIS 2010) that will take place at the Queensland The Services Oriented group at The University of
University of Technology from 1‐3 December 2010 New South Wales will organize a one day
(www.acis2010.org). workshop to investigate how their researchers can
increase collaboration inside the group.
Travel Subsidies
Prof Minjie Zhang, University of Wollongong, will
visit Beijing University in late September and early
October for future research collaboration
discussions. She may also visit Prof J Lakhmi Jain
at the University of South Australia in the early
December.
EII will support Dr Helen Cripps, Edith Cowan
University, on a data gathering trip and research
visit to Aalto University School of Economics in
Finland in 2010. Prof Craig Standing and Dr Helen
Cripps have started research on ICT infrastructures
in the healthcare sector. They have one project
partially supported by Edith Cowan University and
the Western Australian Department of Health and
Ageing to examine the use of ICT to provide a
flexible information infrastructure to support
indigenous people in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands of
WA (1000km from Alice Springs). They are
building on this project in collaboration with
partners in Finland (Dr. Jari Salo) and are
organizing a research trip in 2010 to present their
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Appendix A: Members, Associate Members & Students
Over 2009, EII membership rose from 896 participants to 972 – an increase of 8%. EII’s participants are made
up of 53 core members, 512 associate members, 67 Early Career Researchers, 315 PhD students, 14 masters
& 11 undergraduate. There are 200 members from overseas and 772 from Australia including: 250 NSW, 201
QLD, 199 VIC, 58 ACT, 27 TAS, 21 SA, 14 WA & 2 NT. A total of 67 participants are from industry, 84 from
government departments or government funded organisations, and 821 from universities.

State or Member
Last Name First Name Institution
Country Type
Van der Aalst Wil Eindhoven University of Technology Netherlands Associate
Alam Mahmudul Monash University Victoria PhD
Ababneh Nedal The University of Sydney NSW PhD
Abal Eva The University of Queensland Qld Associate
Abdullah Syed Norris Hikmi The University of Queensland Qld PhD
Abel Dave CSIRO Mathematical & Information Sciences ACT Member
Abeywickrama Dhaminda Monash University VIC PhD
Abramowicz Witold Poznan University of Economics Poland Associate
Abramson David Monash University VIC Member
Agg Janette The University of Melbourne VIC PhD
Ahmad Farooq Victoria University VIC PhD
Ahmad Iftekhar Edith Cowan University WA ECR
Ahmad Wasi University of Agriculture Faisalabad Pakistan Associate
Ahmed Nadeem The University of New South Wales NSW PhD
Ahmed Rakib The Australian National University ACT ECR
Ahuja Monika Hughes Communications India Ltd India Masters
Alahakoon Oshadi Monash University VIC PhD
Alahakoon Damminda Monash University VIC Associate
Albayrak Sahin Technical University of Berlin Germany Associate
Albeshri Aiiad Queensland University of Technology Qld PhD
Al‐Dalain Thair The University of Newcastle NSW PhD
Alhaqbani Bandar Queensland University of Technology Qld PhD
Ali Md Eunus The University of Melbourne VIC PhD
Ali Mortuza Monash University VIC PhD
Ali Riad Al‐Fatah University Libya PhD
Almi'ani Khalid The University of Sydney NSW PhD
Al‐Naymat Ghazi The University of Sydney NSW PhD
Alomari Mohammad The University of Sydney NSW PhD
Aloqaily Ahmad University of Technology, Sydney NSW PhD
Alzaid Hani Queensland University of Technology Qld PhD
Amirbekyan Artak Griffith University Qld PhD
Anish Anamika Karpagem Arts & Science College India Associate
Armstrong Leisa Edith Cowan University WA ECR
Arif Mohammed Jubaer The University of Melbourne VIC PhD
Arnott David Monash University VIC Associate
Arthur Evan Commonwealth Government of Australia ACT Associate
Asadi Saeid The University of Queensland Qld PhD
Asbaghi Shabnam Azad University Iran PhD
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Assad Mark The University of Sydney NSW PhD

Atkins Paul The Australian National University ACT ECR
Atkinson Ian James Cook University Qld Associate
Au Thien The University of Queensland Qld PhD
Azad AKM Monash University VIC PhD
Babbar Sakshi The University of Sydney NSW PhD
Bae Eric The University of Melbourne VIC PhD
Bai Quan CSIRO ICT Centre Tasmania ECR
Bailes Paul The University of Queensland Qld Associate
Bailey James The University of Melbourne VIC Associate
Baker Valerie University of Wollongong NSW PhD
Balakrishnan Venkatesan Macquarie University NSW PhD
Balan Andre University of Sao Paulo Brazil PhD
Balasubramanian Vanathi Anna University India PhD
Balbo Sandrine The University of Melbourne VIC Associate
Balnaves Edmund The University of Sydney NSW PhD
Bandara Wasana Queensland University of Technology Qld PhD
Baqer Mohamed University of Bahrain Bahrain ECR
Barram Laurie Griffith University Qld Associate
Basford Kaye The University of Queensland Qld Associate
Basha Ibrahim Anna University India Bachelors
Baskerville Richard Georgia State University USA Associate
Baumann Ute Australian Centre for Functional Plant Genomics SA Associate
Beaven Doug Virtual Agility USA Associate
Bedo Justin The Australian National University ACT PhD
Beck Roman University of Frankfurt Germany Associate
Becker Christian Mannheim University Germany Associate
Behboudi Mohammad The Australian National University ACT PhD
Benatallah Boualem The University of New South Wales NSW Member
Bernal Julie Monash University VIC PhD
Bernus Peter Griffith University Qld Associate
Bianchi Kerrie Queensland University of Technology Qld Associate
Bidwell Nicola James Cook University Qld Associate
Bird Kerry CITEC Qld Associate
Biswas Moyuresh Australian Defence Force Academy/UNSW ACT PhD
Bode Shirley Edith Cowan University WA Associate
Bohnert Fabian Monash University VIC PhD
Bokareva Tatiana The University of New South Wales NSW PhD
Boldeman Lee Commonwealth Government of Australia ACT Associate
Boughton Clive The Australian National University ACT Associate
Bouguettaya Athman CSIRO ACT Associate
Bowers Shawn University of California Davis USA Associate
Brankovic Ljiljana The University of Newcastle NSW Associate
Brennan Cathy Information Professionals Pty Ltd Qld Associate
Brezillon Patrick University Paris 6 France Associate
Brinsmead Andrew University of Wollongong NSW PhD
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Bro Miltersen Peter University of Aarhus Denmark Associate

Bruza Peter Queensland University of Technology Qld Member
Bu Wanfeng Swinburne University of Technology VIC PhD
Buckby Sherrena Queensland University of Technology Qld Associate
Burgstaller Bernd The University of Sydney NSW Associate
Burn Janice Edith Cowan University WA Associate
Burstein Frada Monash University VIC Associate
Bussler Christoph Digital Enterprise Research Institute Ireland Associate
Butts Carter University of California Irvine USA Associate
Buyya Rajkumar The University of Melbourne VIC Associate
Baghaei Nilufar CSIRO ICT Centre Tasmania ECR
Baig Mirza University of South Australia SA PhD
Basha Ibrahim Anna University India Associate
Baqer Mohamed University of Bahrain Bahrain Associate
Berkovsky Shlomo CSIRO ICT Centre Tasmania ECR
Bertino Elisa Purdue University USA Associate
Cahill Michael The University of Sydney NSW PhD
Calvert Cheryl The University of Melbourne VIC PhD
Calvo Rafael The University of Sydney NSW Associate
Cameron Mark CSIRO ACT Associate
Camm Therese PricewaterhouseCoopers Qld Associate
Campbell John University of Canberra ACT Associate
Campbell Matt CITEC Qld Associate
Cao Longbing University of Technology, Sydney NSW Associate
Cao Minh Duc Monash University VIC PhD
Carey‐Smith Mark Queensland University of Technology Qld PhD
Carroll Jennie RMIT University VIC Member
Carter Belinda The University of Queensland Qld PhD
Carugati Andrea Aarhus University Denmark Associate
Cassin Andrew Australian Centre for Functional Plant Genomics VIC Associate
Cater‐Steele Aileen University of Southern Queensland Qld Associate
Cavedon Lawrence National ICT Australia NSW Associate
Ceglowski Andrzej Monash University VIC Associate
Cha Kyung Jin The Australian National University ACT PhD
Chang Elizabeth Curtin University WA Associate
Chao Hongyang Sun Yat‐Sen University China Associate
Chapman Sylvia Queensland Health Qld Associate
Charleston Michael The University of Sydney NSW Associate
Chatfield Akemi University of Wollongong NSW Associate
Chawla Sanjay The University of Sydney NSW Associate
Cheema Md Aamir The University of New South Wales NSW PhD
Chen Baichen The Australian National University ACT PhD
Chen Jing National ICT Australia NSW Associate
Chen Jinjun Swinburne University of Technology VIC ECR
Chen Lei Hong Kong University of Science & Technology China Associate
Chen Zaiben The University of Queensland Qld PhD
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Chen Phoebe Deakin University VIC Associate

Chen Shan University of Technology, Sydney NSW PhD
Chen Shiping CSIRO NSW Associate
Chen Wei The University of Sydney NSW PhD
Chen Xiaoming The University of Sydney NSW PhD
Chen Yan University of Technology, Sydney NSW PhD
Chen Yawen The University of Adelaide SA PhD
Chetty Girija University of Canberra ACT Associate
Cheung Decca Energex Qld Associate
Cheung Kwok The University of Queensland Qld ECR
Chhieng Van Munin The University of New South Wales NSW PhD
Choi Byounggu The University of Sydney NSW Associate
Choi Ryan The University of New South Wales NSW PhD
Choi Yongsun Inje University Korea Associate
Choi Young University of Tasmania TAS Associate
Compton Paul The University of New South Wales NSW Associate
Chon J N The University of New South Wales NSW PhD
Chong Sandy Curtin University WA Associate
Chong Suan Khai Monash University VIC PhD
Chong Zhe Wei The University of Queensland Qld Bachelors
Chou Chun Tung The University of New South Wales NSW Associate
Choudhary Banshi Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University India Associate
Choudhry Nomica Monash University VIC PhD
Christen Peter The Australian National University ACT Associate
Chung Kon Shing The University of Sydney NSW PhD
Chung Vera The University of Sydney NSW Associate
Clark Marlene Ernst & Young Qld Associate
Clayton Kaylene Griffith University Qld PhD
Clemens Stephan Queensland University of Technology Qld PhD
Colbeck Doug University of Tasmania TAS PhD
Cole Peter University of Adelaide SA Associate
Coleman Tom The University of Melbourne VIC Associate
Colman Alan Swinburne University of Technology VIC Associate
Colomb Robert Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Malaysia Associate
Colton John CSIRO ICT Centre NSW Associate
Conlan Greg Compuware Qld Associate
Cook David Rio Tinto Qld Associate
Culjak Gordana University of Technology, Sydney NSW Associate
Culpepper Shane The University of Melbourne VIC Associate
Cunningham Andrew University of South Australia SA PhD
Cutting Dan The University of Sydney NSW PhD
Chakraborty Dipanjan IBM India Research Laboratory India Associate
Choo Kim‐Kwang Raymond Australian Institute of Criminology ACT Associate
Cui Yue The University of Newcastle NSW PhD
Dahansekaran Jayaraj Annamalai University India Associate
Dave Bharat The University of Melbourne VIC Associate
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Davern Michael The University of Melbourne VIC Associate

David Gary United Technologies Pty Ltd USA Associate
Davies Islay Queensland University of Technology Qld PhD
Davis Joseph The University of Sydney NSW Member
Debenham John University of Technology Sydney NSW Member
Dehne Frank Carleton University Canada Member
De Mel Jean Monash University VIC Associate
Deng Ke The University of Queensland Qld ECR
Derakhshan Roozbeh ETH Zurich Switzerland PhD
Devereux Drew CSIRO ACT Associate
DeVries Timothy The University of Sydney NSW PhD
Dey Anind Carnegie Mellon University USA Associate
Diederich Joachim The University of Queensland Qld Associate
Dilawar Shoaib The University of New South Wales NSW Masters
Dixit Anurag JawaharLal Nehru University India PhD
Dong Zhongli The University of New South Wales NSW PhD
Du Xiaoyong Renmin University of China China Associate
Dumas Marlon Queensland University of Technology Qld Associate
Dunstan Natalie Griffith University Qld Associate
Dwyer Tim Monash University VIC ECR
D'Orazio Matt University of Tasmania Tasmania Bachelors
de Rose Luiz Cray Inc USA Associate
Eades Peter The University of Sydney NSW Member
Edwards Dave Australian Centre for Functional Plant Genomics Qld Associate
Elnour Ammar The University of Sydney NSW PhD
Estivill‐Castro Vladimir Griffith University Qld Member
Edirisinghe Ruwini Kodikara Monash University VIC PhD
Evans Ben The Australian National University ACT Associate
Evans Jamie The University of Melbourne VIC Associate
Evatt Adrian Energex Qld Associate
Falkner Nick The University of Adelaide SA PhD
Fan Hongjian The University of Melbourne VIC Associate
Fang Weiwei Beijing University China PhD
Farmer Rod 3G Mobile Australia VIC Associate
Fehnker Ansgar National ICT Australia NSW Associate
Fei Qin The University of Queensland Qld PhD
Fekete Alan The University of Sydney NSW Member
Fendley Paul Pine Rivers Shire Council Qld Associate
Feng David The University of Sydney NSW Member
Fenwick Joel Griffith University Qld PhD
Fernandez Walter The Australian National University ACT Associate
Fidock Justin RMIT University VIC Associate
Fitz‐Gerald Lois The University of Melbourne VIC PhD
Flender Christian Queensland University of Technology Qld PhD
Flint Shayne The Australian National University ACT Associate
Franke Joern Queensland University of Technology Qld Mphil
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Fraser Steven The Australian National University ACT Associate

Frater Michael Australian Defence Force Academy/UNSW ACT Associate
Fraunholz Bardo Deakin University VIC Associate
Fry Michael University of Technology, Sydney NSW Associate
Fu Yuxi Shanghai Jiaotong University China Associate
Fu Zhouyu The Australian National University ACT PhD
Fulford Richard Edith Cowan University WA Associate
Fung David The University of Sydney NSW PhD
Fung Gabriel The University of Queensland Qld ECR
Feuerlicht George University of Technology, Sydney NSW Associate
Forbes James CSIRO ICT Centre Tasmania Associate
Foth Marcus Queensland University of Technology Qld Associate
Gaber Mohamed CSIRO TAS ECR
Gable Guy Queensland University of Technology Qld Associate
Gall Peter Edith Cowan University WA Associate
Gammack John Griffith University Qld Member
Gani Hendrik RMIT University VIC PhD
Gao Caddie The University of Queensland Qld PhD
Gao Xiaoying (Sharon) Victoria University of Wellington NZ Associate
Gao Yiyue The University of Queensland Qld Mphil
Gay Valerie University of Technology, Sydney NSW Associate
Gedeon Tom The Australian National University ACT Associate
Geng Xin Deakin University VIC PhD
Georgakopoulos Dimitrious CSIRO ICT Centre NSW Associate
Gibson Marcus Monash University VIC PhD
Gillick Brett Monash University VIC PhD
van Glabbeek Robert J National ICT Australia NSW Associate
Glass Stephen Griffith University Qld PhD
Glore Steve Queensland Rail Qld Associate
Gollapalli Mohammed The University of Queensland Qld PhD
Gondal Iqbal Monash University VIC PhD
Goode Sigi The Australian National University ACT Associate
Goscinski Wojtek Monash University VIC PhD
Governatori Guido The University of Queensland Qld Associate
Gray Heather Griffith University Qld PhD
Green David Monash University VIC Associate
Green Peter The University of Queensland Qld Member
Gregor Shirley The Australian National University ACT Member
Grieser Karl The University of Melbourne VIC PhD
Gudmundsson Joachim National ICT Australia NSW Associate
Giugni Stephen CSIRO TAS Member
Gunjal Bhojaraju University of Mysore India PhD
Guo Jay CSIRO NSW Associate
Gupta Kamil Kumar The University of Melbourne VIC PhD
Gupta Sanjeev Doeacc Centre Chandigarh India Associate
Gwillim David University of Technology, Sydney NSW Associate
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Gama Joao University of Porto Portugal Associate

Gardner Henry The Australian National University ACT Associate
Hacid Hakim The University of New South Wales NSW Associate
Hadad Amir Australia National University ACT PhD
Haghighi Pari Monash University VIC PhD
Ham Yu Ni The University of Melbourne VIC PhD
Hames Lang The University of Sydney NSW PhD
Han Donny The University of Sydney NSW PhD
Han Jun Swinburne University of Technology VIC Associate
Han Jiawei University Illinois Urbana‐Champagne USA Associate
Hannon Jay IBM Australia NSW Associate
Hansen David CSIRO Qld Associate
Hashem Tanzima The University of Melbourne VIC PhD
Hao Yanan Victoria University VIC PhD
Haque Ahsanul Monash University VIC PhD
Haque Mahfuzul Monash University VIC Mphil
Harrison John Oxford Bay Pty Ltd Qld Associate
Hartmut‐Guting Ralf Fernuniversitat Hagen Germany Associate
Hartnett Jacky University of Tasmania TAS Associate
Harwood Aaron The University of Melbourne VIC Associate
Hasan Helen University of Wollongong NSW Associate
Hasan Mahady The University of New South Wales NSW PhD
Hassan Mahbub Macquarie University NSW PhD
Havas George The University of Queensland Qld Member
Hawryszkiewycz Igor University of Technology Sydney NSW Member
Hayes Tony Queensland Government Qld Associate
He Jifeng East China Normal University China Associate
He Jing Victoria University VIC Associate
He Pilian Tianjin University China Associate
He Qiang Swinburne University of Technology VIC PhD
He Shumian Kyoto University Japan PhD
He Xiangjian University of Technology, Sydney NSW Associate
He Zhen La Trobe University VIC Associate
von Hellens Liisa Griffith University Qld Associate
Hebden Peter The University of Melbourne VIC PhD
Heednacram Apichat Griffith University Qld PhD
Hevner Alan University of South Florida USA Associate
Hintz Tom University of Technology, Sydney NSW Associate
Hitchens Michael Macquarie University NSW Associate
Ho Hui Kian The University of Melbourne VIC PhD
Ho Joshua The University of Sydney NSW PhD
Ho Susanna The Australian National University ACT Associate
Hoang Doan University of Technology, Sydney NSW Associate
Homayoohfard Hooman University of Technology, Sydney NSW PhD
Hong Seokhee The University of Sydney NSW Member
Hood Philip Queensland Government Qld Associate
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Hopcraft Anthony The University of Queensland Qld Associate

Hopcroft John Cornell University USA Associate
Hoque Md Tamjidul Griffith University Qld Associate
Hossain Liaquat The University of Sydney NSW Associate
Hossain Md Maruf The University of Melbourne VIC PhD
Hovorka Dirk Bond University Qld Associate
Howard Angela University of Southern Queensland Qld Associate
Howard Srecko University of Southern Queensland Qld Associate
Hu Wen CSIRO ICT Centre Qld ECR
Huang Darren Queensland University of Technology Qld PhD
Huang Hai Swinburne University of Technology VIC PhD
Huang Xing Yuan The University of Queensland Qld Bachelors
Huang Zi The University of Queensland Qld ECR
Hudson Adam The University of Sydney NSW PhD
He Yanxiang Wuhan University China Associate
Huang Jiwu Sun Yat‐Sen University China Associate
He Daiqin Macquarie University NSW ECR
Iivari Juhani University of Oulu Finland Associate
Imam Tasadduq Monash University VIC PhD
Imran Ahmed The Australian National University ACT PhD
Indrawan Maria Monash University VIC Associate
Indulska Jaga The University of Queensland Qld Associate
Indulska Marta The University of Queensland Qld ECR
Iqbal Ahmad The University of New South Wales NSW PhD
Ismail Azlan University of Wollongong NSW PhD
Jackson Robert UCLA USA Associate
Jadhav Deepali Sikkim Manipal University India PhD
Jain Varun The University of Queensland Qld Masters
Janiesch Christian SAP Australia Pty Ltd NSW Associate
Jayaganesh Malini Monash University VIC PhD
Jayaraman Prem Monash University VIC PhD
Jefferson Richard CAMBIA ACT Associate
Jeffery Keith Science & Technology Facilities Council UK Associate
Jenkin Steve Self‐Employed Contractor ACT Associate
Jensen Christian Aalborg University Denmark Associate
Jensen Kasper Aalborg University Denmark PhD
Jeung Hoyoung The University of Queensland Qld PhD
Jia Wenjing University of Technology, Sydney NSW ECR
Jiang Bin The University of New South Wales NSW Mphil
Jin Hai Huazong University of Science & Technology China Associate
Jin Jesse The University of Newcastle NSW Member
Jindal Manish Kumar Panjab University India Associate
Jo Jun Griffith University Qld Associate
Johnston Benjamin University of Technology, Sydney NSW PhD
Jones David Central Queensland University Qld Associate
Jones M. Cameron University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign USA PhD
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Josang Audun UNIK ‐ Universitetsenteret pa Kjeller Norway Member

Joyce Phil Swinburne University of Technology VIC Associate
Jurnawan Winly The University of Sydney NSW PhD
Jiang Qingshan Xiamen University China Associate
Kajan Alija CSIRO NSW Associate
Kamruzzaman Joarder Monash University VIC Associate
Kang Byeong Ho University of Tasmania TAS Associate
Kang Yong Bin Monash University VIC PhD
Kanhere Salil The University of New South Wales NSW Associate
Kannan Anushiya The University of Sydney NSW PhD
Kannan Praveen GS1 Australia VIC Associate
Kasana Gagan Patni Computers System Qld Associate
Kay Judy The University of Sydney NSW Associate
Kaushalye Malinda Swinburne University of Technology VIC PhD
Kazlauskas Alanah Australian Catholic University ACT Associate
Kc Milly Wei‐Tsen University of Wollongong NSW PhD
Keller Susan The University of Melbourne VIC PhD
Kelly Diane University of North Carolina USA Associate
Kerr Don University of the Sunshine Coast Qld Associate
Keung Jacky National ICT Australia NSW Associate
Khan Ezhaar NUST Institute of Information Tech Pakistan PhD
Khan Imran The University of Queensland Qld PhD
Khan Mohammad Grameenphone Bangladesh Associate
Kheddouci Hamamache Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1 France Associate
Kieliszewski Cheryl IBM Research USA Associate
Kim Jinman The University of Sydney NSW ECR
Myung‐Hee Kim The University of New South Wales NSW PhD
Kindberg Tim HP Labs UK Associate
Kirley Michael The University of Melbourne VIC ECR
Kissell Brian University of Southern Queensland Qld Associate
Kitsuregawa Masaru University of Tokyo Japan Associate
Koetters Jens Monash University VIC PhD
Koehler Henning The University of Queensland Qld Associate
Kohlborn Thomas Queensland University of Technology Qld Associate
Kongdenfha Woralak The University of New South Wales NSW PhD
Kotagiri Rao The University of Melbourne VIC Member
Koudas Nick University of Toronto Canada Associate
Kowalczyk Ryszard Swinburne University of Technology VIC Associate
Kranz Mark University of Western Australia WA Associate
Krishnaswamy Shonali Monash University VIC Associate
Yingyi Kuang Daily RFID Co Ltd China Associate
Kubik Kurt The University of Queensland Qld Member
Kulik Lars The University of Melbourne VIC Associate
Kumar Dinesh Kant RMIT University VIC Associate
Kummerfeld Bob The University of Sydney NSW Associate
Kuusisto Jari SC Research Finland Associate
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Kalyanaraman Shivkumar IBM Research ‐ India (IRL) India Associate

Kalinov Pavel Griffith University Qld PhD
Kelder Jo‐Anne University of Tasmania Tasmania ECR
Lamb Peter CSIRO ICT Centre ACT Associate
Landfeldt Bjorn The University of Sydney NSW Member
Lane Michael University of Southern Queensland Qld Associate
Langridge Peter Australian Centre for Functional Plant Genomics SA Associate
Larue Gregoire Queensland University of Technology Qld PhD
Lawley Michael Queensland University of Technology Qld Associate
Lawrence Elaine University of Technology, Sydney NSW Associate
Lazarenko Kate Monash University VIC Associate
Leckie Chris The University of Melbourne VIC Associate
Lee Sof A University of Technology, Sydney NSW PhD
Lee Winnie Louis University of Western Australia WA PhD
Lee‐Bernstein Mark Amcor Australasia Qld Associate
Leerberg John Sunshine Technologies Qld Associate
Leijdekkers Peter University of Technology, Sydney NSW Associate
Levy David The University of Sydney NSW Associate
Lewis Andrew Griffith University Qld Associate
Li Chen University of California, Irvine USA Associate
Li Gang Deakin University VIC ECR
Li Guohe China University of Petroleum China Associate
Li Lei Macquarie University NSW Associate
Li Lily Li CSIRO ACT ECR
Li Jiangang IBM Australia NSW Associate
Li Jianxin Swinburne University of Technology VIC PhD
Li Jianzhong Harbin Institute of Technology China Associate
Li Jiuyong University of South Australia SA Associate
Li Man Ning The Australian National University ACT PhD
Li Min University of Southern Queensland Qld PhD
Li Ming Deakin University VIC ECR
Li Qing City University of Hong Kong China Associate
Li Wen‐jun Sun Yat‐Sen University China Associate
Li Xiaoming Peking University China Associate
Li Xue The University of Queensland Qld Associate
Li Zhidong The University of New South Wales NSW PhD
Li Zhou The University of Queensland Qld Bachelors
Liang Guohua University of Technology, Sydney NSW PhD
Liang Weifa The Australian National University ACT Member
Lim Ee Hui Monash University VIC PhD
Lim Joo Ghee The University of New South Wales NSW PhD
Lim Lawrence Queensland University of Technology Qld ECR
Lim Soo Ling National ICT Australia NSW Associate
Lin Aleck The Australian National University ACT PhD
Lin Huairen The University of Sydney NSW PhD
Lin Joe The University of Queensland Qld PhD
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Lin Tao SAP Labs, LLC USA Associate

Lin Xuemin The University of New South Wales NSW Member
Ling Chris Monash University VIC Associate
Little Peter The University of New South Wales NSW Associate
Little Robert The University of Sydney NSW PhD
Liu Anna Microsoft Research Asia NSW Associate
Liu Bo University of Technology, Sydney NSW PhD
Liu Chengfei Swinburne University of Technology VIC Member
Liu Jenny Yan National ICT Australia NSW ECR
Liu Jixue University of South Australia SA Associate
Liu Michael The University of New South Wales NSW Associate
Liu Nianjun National ICT Australia NSW ECR
Liu Qing CSIRO TAS ECR
Liu Wei The University of Sydney NSW PhD
Liu Bing University of South Australia SA ECR
Liu Ke National Natural Science Foundation of China China Associate
Liu Kuien Chinese Academy of Sciences China PhD
Lock Phillip University of South Australia SA PhD
Loekito Elsa The University of Melbourne VIC PhD
Loke Seng La Trobe University VIC Associate
Looi Mark Queensland University of Technology Qld Associate
Love Peter Curtin University WA Associate
Lu Guojun Monash University VIC Associate
Lu Helen University of Technology, Sydney NSW ECR
Lu Hongjun HKUST China Associate
Lu Jie University of Technology, Sydney NSW Associate
Lueg Christopher University of Tasmania TAS Member
Luo Qiong HKUST China Associate
Luo Suhuai The University of Newcastle NSW Associate
Luo Yi The University of New South Wales NSW PhD
Luthria Haresh The University of New South Wales NSW Associate
Lutton Eugene The University of Newcastle NSW PhD
Lynch Neil University of Canberra ACT Associate
Labbé Cyril Universite Joseph Fourier France Associate
Li Jianzhong Harbin Institute of Technology China Associate
Lee Ivan University of South Australia SA Associate
Lichtenstein Ilana The University of Sydney NSW PhD
Lomet David Microsoft Research USA Associate
Li Guohui Huazhong University of Science and Technology China Associate
Li Mingshu Chinese Academy of Sciences China Associate
Li Xuandong Peking University China Associate
Li Keqiu Dalian University of Technology China Associate
Ma Chunyang The University of Melbourne VIC PhD
Ma Dat Cao The University of Queensland Qld PhD
Ma Jiangang Victoria University VIC PhD
Ma Lin Queensland University of Technology Qld Associate
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Ma Mei The University of Melbourne VIC PhD

Ma Ni Monash University VIC PhD
Ma Wei‐Ying Microsoft Research Asia China Member
Maciaszek Leszek Macquarie University NSW Associate
Macintyre Geoffrey The University of Melbourne VIC PhD
Madanayake Ochini The Australian National University ACT PhD
Maeder Anthony CSIRO Qld Associate
Mahmood Abdun The University of Melbourne VIC PhD
Mahmood Omar Charles Darwin University NT Associate
Mahmood Raja Azlina Monash University VIC PhD
Mama Vincent Joseph L'Institut NRAB Senegal Associate
Manning Chris The University of Queensland Qld ECR
Mareels Ivan The University of Melbourne VIC Associate
Marjanovic Oliverra The University of Sydney NSW Associate
Marshall Ian Oceania 21 Qld Associate
Marshall Peter CITEC Qld Associate
Marshall Peter University of Tasmania TAS Associate
Martin Nigel The Australian National University ACT Associate
Masahiro Takatsuka The University of Sydney NSW Associate
Masangkay Joanna The Australian National University ACT PhD
Mateen Ahmed University of Agriculture Faisalabad Pakistan Associate
Mather Diane University of Adelaide SA Associate
Matrouk Khaled The University of Sydney NSW PhD
McBride Simon CSIRO ICT Centre NSW Associate
McCaffrey Neil EQuest Consulting Qld Associate
McDonald Craig University of Canberra ACT Associate
McEwan Gregor National ICT Australia NSW Associate
McGregor Glen Ernst & Young Qld Associate
McIver Annabelle Macquarie University NSW Associate
McKay Judy Swinburne University of Technology VIC Associate
McKee John The University of Queensland Qld Bachelors
McLellan Keith Powerlink Queensland Qld Associate
Mehmood Assad The University of New South Wales NSW PhD
Mehrotra Kaushal Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Qld Associate
Mei Hong Peking University China Associate
Mendoza Antonette The University of Melbourne VIC Associate
Meredith Robert Monash University VIC ECR
Merrick Damian The University of Sydney NSW PhD
Miah Shah Jahan Griffith University Qld PhD
Miao Yuan Victoria University VIC Associate
Mirowski Luke University of Tasmania TAS PhD
Mitchell Robert Pine Rivers Shire Council Qld Associate
Mo John RMIT University VIC Associate
Moffat Alistair The University of Melbourne VIC Associate
Mohan Bhuvaneswari Anna University India Associate
Mohania Mukesh IBM India Research Lab India Associate
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Molla Diego Macquarie University NSW Associate

Morgan Gary CSIRO ICT Centre Qld Associate
Morin Pat Carleton University Canada Associate
Mortimer Kenneth MBA & Associates Qld Associate
Motahari Hamid HP Labs USA ECR
Motte de la Leigh University of Tasmania TAS PhD
Mu Yi University of Wollongong NSW Associate
zur Muehlen Michael Stevens Institute of Technology USA Associate
Muhlberger Ralf The University of Queensland Qld Associate
Murshed Manzur Monash University VIC Associate
Murshed Tanvir The University of Sydney NSW PhD
Musa Nadianatra University of Tasmania TAS PhD
Ma Dianfu Beijing UAA China Associate
Meng Xiangxu Shandong University China Associate
McKay Dana Swinburne University of Technology Victoria Associate
Mcmanus Patricia Mobile Marketing Experience Brazil Associate
Meng Xiaofeng Renmin University of China China Associate
Moench Bob Cray Inc USA Associate
Nagamochi Hiroshi Kyoto University Japan Associate
Nagarajan Aarthi Macquarie University NSW PhD
Naik Ganesh RMIT University VIC Associate
Nakasumi Mitsuaki Komazawa University Japan Associate
Nantiyakul Rattanan Monash University VIC PhD
Natwichai Juggapong Chiang Mai University Thailand ECR
Nawaz Muhammad The University of New South Wales NSW PhD
Necasky Martin Charles University Czech Rep Associate
Nepal Surya CSIRO NSW Associate
Nesamony Sudarsanan The University of Queensland Qld PhD
Newmarch Jan Monash University VIC Associate
Nguyen Son The University of Queensland Qld PhD
Nguyen Tang Bao Le The University of Queensland Qld Bachelors
Nguyen Tuan Anh La Trobe University VIC PhD
Nguyen Vuong Huu The Australian National University ACT PhD
Nicholls Mark Information Professionals Pty Ltd Qld Associate
Nie Jian‐Yun University of Montreal Canada Associate
Nimmervoll Norbet The University of Melbourne VIC Associate
Niu Li University of Technology, Sydney NSW PhD
Nyandoro Alfandika The University of New South Wales NSW Associate
Natarajan Kalaivany University of South Australia SA PhD
Nugent Tim University of Tasmania Tasmania Bachelors
Niu Jianwei The University of Texas at San Antonio USA Associate
O'Brien Paul Griffith University Qld ECR
Odonbaatar Tuya Narantours LLC Mongolia Associate
Ofoghi Bahadorreza University of Ballarat VIC PhD
O'Hara Kenton CSIRO ICT Centre NSW Associate
Olariu Stephan Old Dominion University USA Associate
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Ooi Beng Chin National University of Singapore Singapore Associate

Orgun Mehmet Macquarie University NSW Associate
Orlowska Maria The University of Queensland Qld Member
O'Sullivan‐Greene Elma The University of Melbourne VIC PhD
Olfman Lorne Claremont University USA Associate
Padhi Shantanu The University of Queensland Qld Associate
Paik Helen The University of New South Wales NSW Associate
Paisitkriangkrai Sakrapee The University of New South Wales NSW PhD
Palmer Charles University of Canberra ACT Associate
Pan Jack Daily RFID Co Ltd China Associate
Pan Yi Georgia State University USA Associate
Paik Hye‐Young Helen The University of New South Wales NSW Associate
Pandi Boopathy Anna University India Masters
Pang Chao Yi CSIRO Qld Associate
Papazoglou Michael Tilburg University Netherlands Associate
Paperin Gregory Monash University VIC PhD
Parashar Amit CSIRO ICT Centre NSW Associate
Paris Cecile CSIRO ICT Centre NSW Associate
Park Hyu Chan Korea Maritime University Korea Associate
Park Laurence The University of Melbourne VIC ECR
Parkes Alison The University of Melbourne VIC Associate
Parsa Mahdi Griffith University Qld PhD
Partridge Kim Data #3 Qld Associate
Patel Krutartha The University of New South Wales NSW PhD
Patil Sandeep Charles Darwin University NT PhD
Pattanasri Nimit Kyoto University Japan PhD
Pattison Pip The University of Melbourne VIC Associate
Paul Manoranjan Monash University VIC ECR
Pearn Barry University of Tasmania TAS PhD
Pedersen Carol The University of Queensland Qld Masters
Pedrasa Jhoanna The University of New South Wales NSW PhD
Pei Jian Simon Fraser University Canada Associate
Perepletchikov Mikhail RMIT University VIC PhD
Petters Stefan The University of New South Wales NSW Associate
Pham Duy Hoang The University of Queensland Qld PhD
Pham Gia Vinh Anh The University of Sydney NSW Bachelors
Pham Quan Queensland University of Technology Qld PhD
Phua Clifton Institute of Infocomm Research Singapore ECR
Pinkiewicz Tom University of Tasmania TAS PhD
Piraveenan Mahendra The University of Sydney NSW PhD
Polani Daniel University of Hertfordshire UK Associate
Poon Simon The University of Sydney NSW ECR
Portmann Marius The University of Queensland Qld Associate
Potdar Vidyasagar Curtin University WA Associate
Potts Daniel National ICT Australia NSW PhD
Pradhan Sujeet Kurashiki University of Science & the Arts Japan Associate
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Pratap Abhishek VIT University Vellore India Bachelors

Price Rosanne Monash University VIC Associate
Prokopenko Mikhail CSIRO ICT Centre NSW Associate
Pu Pearl Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Switzerland Associate
Pullar David The University of Queensland Qld Member
Pulo Kevin The Australian National University ACT ECR
Pongpech Worapol Dhurakijpundit University Thailand ECR
Qiao Hong Liang Lexxe Pty Ltd NSW Associate
Qin Fei The University of Queensland Qld PhD
Quan Wu The University of Sydney NSW Associate
Quigley Aaron University of Tasmania Tasmania Member
Qin Yuwen National Natural Science Foundation of China China Associate
Qu Wenyu Dalian Maritime University China Associate
Rabhi Fethi The University of New South Wales NSW Associate
Raboczi Simon The University of Queensland Qld PhD
Radoll Peter The Australian National University ACT PhD
Ragan Mark The University of Queensland Qld Member
Rahim Md Mahbubur Monash University VIC Associate
Rahman Md Ziaur Monash University VIC PhD
Rajasegarar Sutharshan The University of Melbourne VIC PhD
Rakotinarainy Andry Queensland University of Technology Qld Associate
Ram Jiwat University of South Australia SA PhD
Ram Sudha University of Arizona USA Associate
Ramakrishnan Raghu Yahoo Research USA Associate
Ramakrishnan Sita Monash University VIC Associate
Ramamritham Krithi IIT Bombay India Associate
Rana Oman University of Cardiff UK Associate
Rana Rajib Kumar The University of New South Wales NSW PhD
Randeni Kadupitige Sidath Harshana The University of Sydney NSW PhD
Rao Imarn Ahmad The University of Melbourne VIC PhD
Recker Jan Queensland University of Technology Qld Associate
Ren Feng Hui University of Wollongong NSW PhD
Richards Debbie Macquarie University NSW Associate
Richardson Alex The Australian National University ACT Associate
Robb Alistair The University of Queensland Qld Associate
Robins Garry The University of Melbourne VIC Associate
Robinson Ricky National ICT Australia Qld Associate
Robinson Steve Tenixtoll Defence Logistics Qld Associate
Roehm Uwe The University of Sydney NSW Associate
Roessner Ute Australian Centre for Functional Plant Genomics VIC Associate
Rogl Andrew CITEC Qld Associate
Rosemann Michael Queensland University of Technology Qld Member
Rotaru Kristian Monash University VIC Associate
Rowlands Bruce Griffith University Qld Associate
Roy Dhruba The University of Sydney NSW Associate
Ruan Chun University of Western Sydney NSW Associate
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Ruiz Martinez Antonio Universidad de Murcia Spain Associate

Russel ABM Monash University VIC PhD
Rouse In Fiji Medical School Fiji Associate
Sadiq Shazia The University of Queensland Qld Member
Sadiq Wasim SAP Australia Pty Ltd Qld Associate
Saetang Sureerat Polynovo Biomaterials Pty Ltd VIC Associate
Saguna Saguna Monash University VIC PhD
Sahni Sartaj University of Florida USA Associate
Salim Flora Monash University VIC PhD
Salem Md Aal The University of Sydney NSW PhD
Sam Yacine Domaine Universitaire de Saint‐Jerome France PhD
Sanati Farzad University of Technology, Sydney NSW PhD
Santhanam Anand The Australian National University ACT PhD
Sattar Abdul Griffith University Qld Associate
Scanlan Joel University of Tasmania TAS PhD
Schafer Stefan The University of Sydney NSW Masters
Sherchan Wanita Monash University VIC PhD
Schmidt Desmond The University of Queensland Qld PhD
Scholer Falk RMIT University VIC Associate
Scholz Bernhard The University of Sydney NSW Associate
Scruton John Clear Lead Pty Ltd Qld Associate
Schulz Karsten SAP Australia Pty Ltd Qld Member
Schwabe Gerhard University of Zurich Switzerland Associate
Seigel H J University of Colorado USA Associate
Selvadurai Selvakennedy The University of Sydney NSW Associate
Seneviratne Aruna National ICT Australia NSW Associate
Seredynski Frank ICS, Polish Academy of Sciences Poland Associate
Setiawan Mukhammad Andri The University of Queensland Qld PhD
Shadbolt Bruce Canberra Hosptial ACT Associate
Shahed Khaled Queensland Health Qld Associate
Shahid Md Iqbal Bin Monash University VIC PhD
Shang Haichuan The University of New South Wales NSW PhD
Shankar BA Gowri The University of Sydney NSW Masters
Shankar R Siva Anna University India Associate
Shanks Graeme The University of Melbourne VIC Member
Shao Jie The University of Melbourne VIC ECR
Shahriar Md Sumon University of South Australia SA PhD
Sharma Arun Queensland University of Technology Qld Associate
Sharma K Nitin Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, Ranchi India Masters
Sharma Pramod The University of Queensland Qld Associate
Seeber Balint The University of Sydney NSW PhD
Shen Heng Tao The University of Queensland Qld ECR
Shen Hong University of Adelaide SA Associate
Shen Jialie Singapore Management University Singapore Associate
Shen Jun University of Wollongong NSW Associate
Sheng Michael University of Adelaide SA Associate
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Shepherd John The University of New South Wales NSW Member

Sherchan Wanita Monash University VIC PhD
Sheth Amit Wright State University USA Associate
Shi Fan The University of Melbourne VIC PhD
Shoebridge Jon Queensland Health Qld Associate
Shu Yanfeng CSIRO TAS ECR
Shum Harry Microsoft Research Asia China Associate
Si Weisheng The University of Sydney NSW PhD
Sikka Pavan CSIRO Qld Associate
Simsion Graeme The University of Melbourne VIC Associate
Singh Manmeet The University of Queensland Qld PhD
Sinha Ranjan The University of Melbourne VIC Associate
Smith Stephen Monash University VIC Associate
Song Dawei The Robert Gordon University UK Member
Soon Lisa Griffith University Qld PhD
Sorwar Golam Southern Cross University NSW ECR
Soxsmith Karen IMBcom Pty Ltd Qld Associate
Spink Amanda Queensland University of Technology Qld Associate
Srinivasan Bala Monash University VIC Member
Srinivasan Venkatesan Vellore The University of Queensland Qld Mphil
Srivastava Divesh AT&T Labs‐Research USA Associate
Srivastava Jaideep University of Minnesota USA Associate
Staehr Lorraine La Trobe University VIC Associate
Standing Craig Edith Cowan University WA Member
Standing Susan Edith Cowan University WA PhD
Stantic Bela Griffith University Qld Associate
Staples Mark National ICT Australia NSW Associate
Stellar Luke Monash University VIC PhD
Steube Ken The University of Queensland Qld Associate
Steven Jeff Tenixtoll Defence Logistics Qld Associate
Stumptner Markus University of South Australia SA Member
Su Jianwen University of California Santa Barbara USA Associate
Subramaniam Subbu Deakin University VIC PhD
Saudi
Subramoniam Suresh Prince Sultan University Riyadh Arabia Associate
Sugianto Lyfie Monash University VIC Associate
Suleiman Basem National ICT Australia NSW PhD
Sun Haiyang Macquarie University NSW PhD
Sun Huanliang Shenyang Jianzhu University China Associate
Sun Lili University of Southern Queensland Qld PhD
Sun Maosong Tsinghua University China Associate
Sun Sai National ICT Australia Qld ECR
Sun Xiaoxun University of Southern Queensland Qld PhD
Sun Xingzhi IBM Beijing Research Lab China ECR
Suri Neeraj Technical University of Darmstadt Germany Associate
Suter David Monash University VIC Associate
Syed Shamsheer The University of Ballarat VIC PhD
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Samet Hanan University of Maryland USA Associate

Schuster Assaf Technion, Israel Institute of Technology Israel Associate
Tabassum Nahdia Monash University VIC PhD
Taheri Javid The University of Sydney NSW ECR
Takahashi Marissa The University of Queensland Qld Associate
Takatsuka Masahiro The University of Sydney NSW Associate
Tam Ricky Deakin University VIC PhD
Tam Vincent The University of New South Wales NSW PhD
Tan Evan The University of New South Wales NSW PhD
Tan Hui Min Cherri Queensland University of Technology Qld PhD
Tan Jeff Monash University VIC ECR
Tan Kian‐Lee National University of Singapore Singapore Associate
Tanaka Katsumi Kyoto University Japan Associate
Tang Jia University of Wollongong NSW PhD
Tanin Egemen The University of Melbourne VIC Associate
Tao Aries Macquarie University NSW PhD
Tao Yufei Chinese University of Hong Kong China Associate
Tari Zahir RMIT University VIC Associate
Taubman David The University of New South Wales NSW Associate
Taylor Glen Department of Defence Qld Associate
Taylor Kerry CSIRO ACT Member
Tedjasaputra Adi RFID Asia Singapore Associate
Te'o Togamau University of Southern Queensland Qld Associate
Tezuka Taro Kyoto University Japan ECR
Thiagarajan Rajesh University of South Australia SA PhD
Thurley Justin University of Tasmania TAS PhD
Topor Rodney Griffith University Qld Associate
Tosic Vladimir National ICT Australia NSW Associate
Tran Minh Hong Swinburne University of Technology VIC Associate
Tran Nam Monash University VIC PhD
Tran Thi Khanh Van The University of New South Wales NSW PhD
Treharne Kenneth Flinders University SA PhD
Tsoi Ah‐Chung Monash University VIC Associate
Tung Tracy University of Technology, Sydney NSW Associate
Tupakula Udaya Macquarie University NSW ECR
Turpin Andrew RMIT University VIC Associate
Twidale Michael University Illinois Urbana‐Champagne USA Associate
Tang Yuan‐Yan Chongqing University China Associate
Toumani Farouk University Blaise Pascal France Associate
Tse Daniel The University of Sydney NSW PhD
Umer Muhammad The University of Melbourne VIC PhD
Uren Philip University of Tasmania TAS PhD
Vairamuthu Madhan The University of Queensland Qld PhD
Varadharajan Mahitha Velammal College of Engineering & Technology India Associate
Varadharajan Vijay Macquarie University NSW Member
Varsavsky Andrea The University of Melbourne VIC PhD
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Venable John Curtin University WA Associate

Verhein Florian The University of Sydney NSW PhD
Vessey Iris Queensland University of Technology Qld Associate
Viglas Tasos The University of Sydney NSW Associate
Vijayaraghavan Ranganathan Satyam Computer Services Ltd India Associate
Vogel Douglas City University of Hong Kong China Associate
Volu Soar China University of Mining & Technology China PhD
Wamba Samuel Fosso University of Wollongong NSW Associate
Wang Chao University of Technology, Sydney NSW PhD
Wang Chen The University of Sydney NSW Associate
Wang Guoren Northeastern University China Associate
Wang Hua University of Sourthern Queensland Qld Associate
Wang Liang The University of Melbourne VIC ECR
Wang Lily Queensland Health Qld Associate
Wang Liwei Wuhuan University China ECR
Wang Junhu Griffith University Qld Associate
Wang Mingzhong The University of Melbourne VIC PhD
Wang Penghao The University of Sydney NSW PhD
Wang Ruidan The Australian National University ACT PhD
Wang Stella The University of Queensland Qld Associate
Wang Wei The University of New South Wales NSW ECR
Wang Xiaolong China Telecom Group China Associate
Wang Yan Macquarie University NSW Associate
Wang Yi Macquarie University NSW Associate
Wark Tim CSIRO Qld Associate
Warren John Microsoft Research Asia NSW Associate
Wasinger Rainer The University of Sydney NSW Associate
Waters Stephen University of Western Sydney NSW Associate
Watters Paul University of Ballarat VIC Associate
Weber Ron Monash University VIC Member
Webster Rachel The University of Melbourne VIC Member
Weier Trent PricewaterhouseCoopers Qld Associate
Weill Peter Massachussetts Institute of Technology USA Associate
Wheeler Kathy Queensland University of Technology Qld Associate
Wibisono Waskitho Monash University VIC PhD
Wijesooriya Chinthake The University of Queensland Qld PhD
Wiles Janet The University of Queensland Qld Associate
Wilkin Carla Monash University VIC Associate
Wilkins Marc The University of New South Wales NSW Associate
Wilkinson Mark James Hogg Centre Canada Associate
Wilkinson Ross Australian National Data Service Victoria Member
Williams Rohan The Australian National University ACT Associate
Williamson Darrell CSIRO ICT Centre NSW Associate
Wilson Devon The University of Queensland Qld PhD
Win Khin Than University of Wollongong NSW Associate
Wirth Tony The University of Melbourne VIC Associate
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Wishart Ryan National ICT Australia Qld ECR

Wolle Thomas National ICT Australia NSW Associate
Wong Bernard University of Technology, Sydney NSW Associate
Wong Gerard The University of Melbourne VIC PhD
Wong Juliana Swinburne University of Technology VIC PhD
Wong Kam‐Fai Chinese University of Hong Kong China Associate
Wong Limsoon National University of Singapore Singapore Associate
Wong Raymond The University of New South Wales NSW Member
Wong Waiho The University of Sydney NSW PhD
Wong Yuk Kuen Griffith University Qld Associate
Wong Zoe Griffith University Qld Associate
Wu Hong Ren RMIT University VIC Associate
Wu Mingfang RMIT University VIC Associate
Wu Qiang University of Technology, Sydney NSW ECR
Wu Wengang Peking University China Associate
Wallace Mark Monash University Victoria Associate
Waskito Hendy University of Indonesia Indonesia PhD
Wang Huaimin National University of Defense Technology China Associate
Wang Jianmin Tsinghua University China Associate
Wang Hongzhi Harbin Institute of Technology China ECR
Xiang Yang Central Queensland University Qld Associate
Xiao Chuan The University of New South Wales NSW PhD
Xiao Yanshan University of Technology, Sydney NSW PhD
Xie Kexin The University of Queensland Qld PhD
Xie Jun Monash University VIC PhD
Xie Meng The University of Sydney NSW PhD
Xie Jue Monash University Victoria PhD
Xie Qing Felix The University of Queensland Qld PhD
Xu Dongming The University of Queensland Qld ECR
Xu Jiajie Swinburne University of Technology VIC PhD
Xu Kevin Kai CSIRO ICT Centre TAS ECR
Xu Min The University of Newcastle NSW PhD
Xu Xiaofei Harbin Institute of Technology China Associate
Xue Jingling The University of New South Wales NSW Associate
Xue Xiangyang Fudan University China Associate
Yadav Prateek Vellore Institute of Technology India PhD
Yan Jun University of Wollongong NSW ECR
Yang Jian Macquarie University NSW Associate
Yang Pengyi The University of Sydney NSW PhD
Yang Shuxiang The University of New South Wales NSW PhD
Yang Yao Shih National Tsing Hua University Taiwan PhD
Yang Yun Swinburne University of Technology VIC Associate
Yau Wai Chee RMIT University VIC PhD
Ye Dayong University of Wollongong NSW Mphil
Ye Juan University College Dublin Ireland PhD
Yearwood John University of Ballarat VIC Associate
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Yeganeh Naiem The University of Queensland Qld PhD

Yeoh William University of South Australia SA PhD
Yew Kwok Chung The University of New South Wales NSW PhD
Yin Jie CSIRO ICT Centre NSW ECR
Yoo Donghoon Paul The University of Sydney NSW PhD
Yu Changbin The Australian National University ACT PhD
Yu Ge Northeastern University China Associate
Yu Jeffrey Chinese University of Hong Kong China Associate
Yu Tao The University of Queensland Qld Bachelors
Yu Ting The University of Sydney NSW Associate
Yuan Dong Swinburne University of Technology VIC PhD
Yuan Shaojie University of Wollongong NSW PhD
Ye Zhen The University of Queensland Qld PhD
Yi Ke Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong Associate
Zafar Md Adeel The University of Melbourne VIC PhD
Zaiane Osmar University of Alberta Canada Associate
Zaslavsky Arkady Lulea University of Technology Sweden Member
Zeleznikow John Victoria University VIC Associate
Zhang Bailing Victoria University VIC Associate
Zhang Chengqi University of Technology, Sydney NSW Associate
Zhang Dana The University of Melbourne VIC PhD
Zhang Guang‐quan University of Technology, Sydney NSW Associate
Zhang Huaifeng University of Technology, Sydney NSW ECR
Zhang Jie University of Technology, Sydney NSW PhD
Zhang Jian National ICT Australia NSW Associate
Zhang Jinglan Queensland University of Technology Qld ECR
Zhang Junqi Macquarie University NSW PhD
Zhang Minjie University of Wollongong NSW Member
Zhang Qing CSIRO Qld Associate
Zhang Rui The University of Melbourne VIC Associate
Zhang Shaoyi The University of Melbourne VIC PhD
Zhang Shichao University of Technology, Sydney NSW Associate
Zhang Wenjie The University of New South Wales NSW PhD
Zhang Yanchun Victoria University VIC Member
Zhang Ying The University of New South Wales NSW PhD
Zhao Weiliang Macquarie University NSW PhD
Zhao Xiaohui Swinburne University of Technology VIC ECR
Zhao Yanchang University of Technology, Sydney NSW ECR
Zhao Yi (Emma) Australia National University ACT PhD
Zheng Huiyuan Macquarie University NSW PhD
Zheng Lihong Charles Sturt University NSW ECR
Zheng Kevin Kai The University of Queensland Qld PhD
Zheng Zhong The Australian National University ACT PhD
Zhou Aoying Fudan University China Associate
Zhou Bing Bing The University of Sydney NSW Member
Zhou Neng‐Fa City University of New York USA Associate
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Zhou Pu The University of Melbourne VIC PhD

Zhou Rui Swinburne University of Technology VIC PhD
Zhou Wanlei Deakin University VIC Associate
Zhou Xiangmin The University of Queensland Qld PhD
Zhou Xiaofang The University of Queensland Queensland Member
Zhu Jun Monash University Victoria PhD
Zic John CSIRO NSW Associate
Zeng Wenhui Xiamen University China Associate
Zhang Yi Sichuan University China Associate
Zhou Xingshe Northwestern Polytechnical University China Associate
Zhuang Yueting Zhejiang University China Associate
Zomaya Albert The University of Sydney NSW Member
Zuo Ziye University of Technology, Sydney NSW PhD

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Appendix B: Institutional Microsoft Research Asia
Dr Wei‐Ying Ma
Contacts 2009 Microsoft Research Asia
Phone: 86‐10‐6261 7711
The Australian National University Email: wyma@microsoft.com
Prof Shirley Gregor Mr John Warren
School of Business and Information Management Microsoft Pty Limited
The Australian National University 1 Epping Road
ACT 0200 Australia North Ryde NSW 2113
Phone: +61 2 612 53749 Email: jowarren@microsoft.com
Fax: +61 2 612 55005
Email: shirley.gregor@anu.edu.au Monash University
Prof David Abramson
CSIRO ICT Centre School of Computer Science & Software
Dr Athman Bouguettaya Engineering
CSIRO ICT Centre Monash University
Building 108, North Road, ANU Campus Clayton Vic 3800
Tel: 61 2 6216 7032 Phone: (03) 9905 1183
Fax: 61 2 6216 7111 fax: (03) 9905 5146
Email: Athman.Bouguettaya@csiro.au Mobile: 0417 375 635
Email: davida@csse.monash.edu.au
Edith Cowan University
Prof Craig Standing National ICT Australia
Information Systems Department Prof Justin Zobel
School of Management Information Systems National ICT Australia Ltd
Edith Cowan University Level 2 Building 193, University of Melbourne,
Joondalup WA 6027 Parkville 3010
Phone: +61 8 6304 5244 Phone: +61 3 8344 6243 (NICTA
Fax: +61 8 6304 5988 Email: jz@csse.unimelb.edu.au
Email: c.standing@ecu.edu.au
The University of Newcastle
Griffith University Prof Jesse Jin
Prof Vladimir Estivill‐Castro School of Design, Communication & Information
School of Information & Communications Technology
Technology The University of Newcastle
Griffith University University Drive
Nathan QLD 4111 Callaghan NSW 2308
Phone: (+61 7) 387 55402 Alexandria NSW 1435
Fax: (+61 7) 387 55051 Phone: +61 (2) 4921 7912
Email: v.castro‐estivill@griffith.edu.au Email: jesse.jin@newcastle.edu.au
Macquarie University The University of New South Wales
Prof Vijay Varadharajan Prof Boualem Benatallah
Department of Computing School of Computer Science & Engineering
Macquarie University The University of New South Wales
Sydney NSW 2109 Sydney NSW 2052
Phone: +61‐2‐9850‐9534 Phone: +61 2 93854767
Fax: +61‐2‐9850‐9511 Fax: +61 2 93855995
Email: vijay@ics.mq.edu.au Email: boualem@cse.unsw.edu.au
The University of Melbourne University of Queensland
Prof Rao Kotagiri Prof Xiaofang Zhou
Department of Computer Science & Software School of Information Technology & Electrical
Engineering Engineering
The University of Melbourne University of Queensland
Parkville VIC 3052 Brisbane Q 4072
Phone: +61 3 8344 1301 Phone: 07 3365 2989
Fax: +61 3 9348 1184 Fax: 07 3365 3248
Email: rao@csse.unimelb.edu.au Email: zxf@itee.uq.edu.au
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Queensland University of University of Technology, Sydney
Technology Prof Igor Hawryszkiewycz
Prof Michael Rosemann University of Technology, Sydney
Centre for IT Innovation PO Box 123
Queensland University of Technology Broadway NSW 2007
Level 5 / 126 Margaret Street Fax: +61 2 9514 4492
Brisbane Qld 4000, Australia Phone: +61 2 9514 1809
Phone: +61 (0)7 3864 9473 Email: igorh@it.uts.edu.au
Fax: +61 (0)7 3864 9390 Victoria University
Email: m.rosemann@qut.edu.au
Prof Yanchun Zhang
SAP Australia Pty Ltd School of Computer Science & Mathematics
Dr Karsten Schulz Victoria University
SAP Research APJ PO Box 14428
Lvl 7, 52 Merivale St Melbourne City MC VIC 8001
South Brisbane QLD 4101 Tel: 61 3 9919 5060
P: +61 7 3259 9547 Fax: 61 3 9919 4050
M: +61 438 231 482 Email: yzhang@csm.vu.edu.au
Email: ka.schulz@sap.com University of Wollongong
University of South Australia A/Prof Minjie Zhang
Prof Markus Stumptner School of IT and Computer Science
Advanced Computing Research Centre University of Wollongong
University of South Australia Wollongong NSW 2522
Mawson Lakes Boulevard Phone: +61 2 4221 4745
Mawson Lakes 5095 SA Fax: +61 2 4221 4170
Phone: +61 (8) 8302 3965 Email: minjie@uow.edu.au
Email: mst@cs.unisa.edu.au
Swinburne University of
Technology
Prof Chengfei Liu
Faculty of Information & Communication
Technologies
Swinburne University of Technology
Hawthorn VIC 3122
Phone: +61‐3‐92145035
Fax: +61‐3‐98190823
Email: cliu@it.swin.edu.au
The University of Sydney
Prof Albert Zomaya
School of Information Technologies
Madsen Building, F09
The University of Sydney NSW 2006
Phone: +61 2 9351 6442
Fax: +61 2 9351 3838
Email: zomaya@it.usyd.edu.au
University of Tasmania
Prof Christopher Lueg
School of Computing
Private Bag 100
Hobart TAS 7001
Telephone: +61 3 6226 2911
Fax: +61 3 6226 1824
Email: Christopher.lueg@utas.edu.au
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Appendix C: Web Server Statistics for www.eii.edu.au
Program started at Tue‐02‐Mar‐2010 14:04.
Analysed requests from Thu‐01‐Jan‐2009 00:00 to Thu‐31‐Dec‐2009 23:59 (365.00 days).
General Summary
This report contains overall statistics.
Successful requests: 1,234,786
Average successful requests per day: 3,382
Successful requests for pages: 168,522
Average successful requests for pages per day: 461
Failed requests: 159,335
Redirected requests: 5,439
Distinct files requested: 38,691
Distinct hosts served: 23,560
Corrupt logfile lines: 105
Unwanted logfile entries: 3,250,909
Data transferred: 38.33 gigabytes
Average data transferred per day: 107.54 megabytes
Monthly Report
This report lists the activity in each month.
Each unit ( ) represents 600 requests for pages or part thereof.
month reqs pages
Jan 2009 105564 18269
Feb 2009 105975 12401
Mar 2009 135358 14383
Apr 2009 108903 15379
May 2009 104261 16595
Jun 2009 113203 23062
Jul 2009 135463 22319
Aug 2009 128197 21194
Sep 2009 95109 8636
Oct 2009 81085 5936
Nov 2009 67967 5192
Dec 2009 53701 5156
Busiest month: Jun 2009 (23,062 requests for pages).
Domain Report
This report lists the countries of the computers which requested files.
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Listing domains, sorted by the amount of traffic.
reqs %bytes domain
855645 67.63% [unresolved numerical addresses]
136291 13.58% .com (Commercial)
139468 5.65% .au (Australia)
78671 3.62% edu.au
24432 0.76% uq.edu.au
23206 0.72% itee.uq.edu.au
48385 1.32% com.au
46073 5.07% .net (Networks)
5574 3.91% .cn (China)
429 0.80% .ro (Romania)
5185 0.46% .in (India)
2905 0.36% .fr (France)
1907 0.21% .sg (Singapore)
2793 0.20% .org (Non Profit Making Organisations)
2630 0.19% [domain not given]
2718 0.15% .uk (United Kingdom)
459 0.14% .gov (USA Government)
265 0.13% .pl (Poland)
135 0.12% .int (International Treaty Organisations)
3327 0.12% .it (Italy)
1013 0.11% .my (Malaysia)
1129 0.11% .hk (Hong Kong)
523 0.11% .kr (South Korea)
1550 0.11% [unknown domain]
818 0.09% .dk (Denmark)
1500 0.07% .jp (Japan)
475 0.06% .tw (Taiwan)
720 0.06% .pk (Pakistan)
3658 0.06% .de (Germany)
1168 0.06% .nl (Netherlands)
932 0.05% .ch (Switzerland)
2000 0.04% .edu (USA Higher Education)
116 0.04% .tz (Tanzania)
538 0.03% .pt (Portugal)
258 0.03% .ma (Morocco)
1849 0.02% .ie (Ireland)
421 0.02% .sa (Saudi Arabia)
453 0.02% .za (South Africa)
1032 0.01% .ca (Canada)
147 0.01% .ua (Ukraine)
577 0.01% .nz (New Zealand)
596 0.01% .se (Sweden)
1111 0.01% .es (Spain)
825 0.01% .at (Austria)
392 0.01% .br (Brazil)
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Organisation Report
This report lists the organisations of the computers which requested files.
Listing the top 20 organisations by the number of requests, sorted by the number of requests.
reqs %bytes organisation

62523 8.84% 66.249
52854 6.19% googlebot.com
46777 2.62% 65.55
34746 1.11% 123
32410 0.34% westnet.com.au
32031 3.27% msn.com
30575 2.12% 216.129
27857 1.96% cuill.com
24432 0.76% uq.edu.au
22896 1.12% 124
20575 2.48% yahoo.net
20146 1.19% 122
19112 1.27% 85
18407 0.99% 58
17671 1.50% 59
15362 0.96% 121
12716 0.82% 67.218
11893 0.65% 60
11650 1.17% 117
11395 1.18% 41
708758 59.44% [not listed: 4,879 organisations]
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Appendix D: Centre Research Program – ARC COE EOI Nov 2009
ARC Centre of Excellence for a Data Rich Society
Society is undergoing a major shift towards new data‐intensive environments for scientific, business and
personal applications, underpinned by the popularity of the Internet. Scientists are generating vast amounts
of data using new devices and simulation models, individuals are connecting together to create an abundance
of content for the World Wide Web, and business organizations are trying to make sense of diverse streams of
information. We are presented with a challenge of comprehending overwhelming amounts of data. New
solutions are required to manage this challenge.
There already exist a range of techniques for data management and processing. The database community has
investigated issues in data integration and processing for several decades. There have been some spectacular
successes, resulting in mainstream database products and services and the ubiquitous adoption of database
systems as an indispensable component of today’s information infrastructure. However, these traditional
techniques have not kept pace with recent changes. There have been dramatic increases in data complexity,
heterogeneity and connectivity. People’s expectations and needs about data utility and quality also become
very diverse, from simple queries and tabular reports on a single data source in the past to complex data
analysis using correlations, clustering, trends and non‐trivial knowledge across many data sources. A clear
indication that the emerging data rich society requires the new generation information infrastructure is that
more and more businesses, scientists and decision makers are spending significant amount of time in
managing data, sometimes developing their own data management solutions. There is a significant gap
between Australia’s major national investment in computing, data generation and capturing, data storage and
communication infrastructures, such as new broadband network, scientific instruments, data centres and
supercomputing facilities, and the support to let day‐to‐day users understand, use and benefit from the data
(rather than being forced to manage the scale, diversity and quality of the data).
Research investment in data management and computer networks from late 60s to early 90s laid the
foundation of the current generation of information infrastructure. Now history presents a major R&D
opportunity for us to develop the next generation of information infrastructure. This Centre aims to develop
new paradigms to address the needs of the data rich society. In particular, this will result in the development
of theory and algorithms that will lead to the production of new tools and techniques to advance the state of
the art in managing and making sense of data. It will address major challenges with respect to data volume,
large scale knowledge discovery, data consistency, data privacy and data trust which are common across a
large range of application domains. The Centre will bring together an outstanding team of researchers in high
performance computation, databases, knowledge discovery, privacy, as well as internationally recognised
experts and leading‐edge users in several key data‐intensive application domains: biomedical, business and
water resources management. The establishment of the Centre has the potential to bring considerable
benefits to Australia. Individuals, communities and organisations will be better equipped to form hypotheses,
make evidence based decisions and understand their consequences in a data‐intensive environment. Such
decisions may draw upon both private and public data and require the efficient processing of large amounts of
complex and possibly incomplete information. Decision making can be made with stronger guarantees about
quality, security and trust.
In particular, the proposed Centre will address several challenges that face Data‐rich Societies:
Program‐1: Managing data volume, complexity,
Program-5: Application Focus
Program-3: Security Privacy and Trust
quality and semantics: Current database technology

Business Applications Scientific Applications
are developed mainly for business and enterprise (Capital market, CentreLink) (Biomedical, Water Resources Management)
applications, which share common characteristics
such as standard workflow processes and clean (pre‐ Program-2: Data Analysis & Actionable
processed) data. Database technology greatly Knowledge Discovery
simplifies application development by providing a
central data repository, with a set of generic tools
Program-1: Data Management
that are capable of performing most data (managing data volume, complexity,
management tasks and provide highly desirable quality and semantics)
features such as data independence, high
performance, and high reliability. While such tools
Program-4: Cloud Computing and Services
are still highly desirable today, many new personal,
commercial and scientific applications have returned
Fig-1: Relationships among Programs in CoE of a Data Rich Society
to primitive file systems to manage their data, either
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due to lack of support, inflexibility or poor performance. Unfortunately, this trend means that low‐level data
management functions need to be repeated again and again at the application level. New techniques for
information management and middleware are needed to connect and query massive repositories generated
by high throughput scientific instruments with different levels of data quality. For example, next generation
DNA sequencing machines can generate terabytes of output per day. The value of this information will be lost,
unless accompanying integration and access methods are developed. This change calls for new data
management approaches that should support lightweight and incremental data fusion for very large amounts
of dynamic data from different sources, with built‐in support for data quality management that can offer
organizational, architectural and computational solutions to ensure controllable and understandable data
quality. It will at the core of the next generation information infrastructure for a data rich society.
Program‐2: Data analysis and actionable knowledge discovery: This research aims at liberating the user from
managing data, moving towards making sense of the data. Advances in this area in last two decades brought
us to the eve of new breakthroughs in theory, algorithms and methodologies of knowledge discovery for the
emerging data rich society, most likely in large scale and multi‐source data mining, multimedia and
spatiotemporal data mining, and new techniques considering cost‐sensitive, quality‐aware, privacy‐preserving
and domain‐specific requirements. The program will advocate knowledge discovery based on advanced
computing infrastructure such as the cloud, and develop effective data mining solutions for various application
domains to generate actionable knowledge discovery. Our new research in this program will make full use of
domain expert knowledge, which is not considered enough in the current knowledge discovery algorithms and
methodologies. This novel methodology will use both technical interestingness and business interestingness
for mining criteria and interactive mining process, enabling evidence‐based quality decisions in a timely
fashion across applications domains.
Program‐3: Security, Privacy and Trust: Enhancing the quality of decision making relies on the timeliness,
reliability and the integrity of the data being used. Given the large amount of data that are being used from a
diverse range of sources in decision making, properties such as security, trust and privacy have become critical
in the digital economy. A fundamental issue is the level of trust that can be placed on the data that is being
used in the decision making systems. There is a clear need to develop new trust models and evaluation
algorithms for determining the trustworthiness of different types of data coming from different sources in an
Internet scale system. We also need to develop novel ways of combining and aggregating the trust for data
coming from different levels of trusted sources for different applications. Another major challenge is how to
ensure that the privacy of data is maintained in a large scale Internet type application, where there are
different levels of privacy requirements for the subjects of the data, ranging from individuals to enterprises to
Government agencies. The scale of information we are dealing in this Centre will require new techniques for
ensuring security and privacy in large scale peer to peer federated systems. Developing large scale
trustworthy secure systems is still in its infancy and much research needs to be done not only in the design of
security and trust models and their evaluation, but also in the areas of security and trust policy management
especially when it comes to distributed applications under multiple jurisdictions. There is also a need to
develop new techniques that can efficiently verify and guarantee the security and trust properties of data in
such large systems. Hence Security, Privacy and Trust form a core part of a Data Rich Society like Australia and
our Centre will make significant contributions in this area thereby enabling the quality of decision making for
individuals, enterprises and government agencies.
Program‐4: Complexity of processing: The sheer size of data, the modalities of data and the nature of
processing demands new computational techniques that can exploit the distributed computation
infrastructure offered by cloud computing. These new techniques might need to gather information from
several sources and at the same time process the information while it is being gathered. We anticipate that
tomorrow’s computational infrastructure will consist of a number of powerful data centres that are
geographically distributed, with smaller replicated data stores caching the data. Data centres will be located
near cheap green energy, and will share their load globally. Users will be able to execute complex queries by
remote connections (on devices ranging from mobiles to desktops), executing time consuming data modelling
and analytics using cloud services. Computation power will be delivered on demand, matching data locality
with energy and resource availability, using virtualization as a key technology. Derived data (produced by
models) and captured data (produced by instruments) will be handled by a seamless infrastructure, allowing
users to abstract simulations and real world experiments. We will develop techniques to advance these goals,
providing computation techniques that will be responsive and cost effective with low energy costs.
Program‐5: Application focus: The continued exponential growth of computational power, data‐generation
sources, and communication technologies is giving rise to a new era in information processing: data‐intensive
computing. Data‐intensive computing promises not just an evolutionary change in informatics but also a
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revolutionary change in the way researchers gather and process information, from the hardware and
algorithms to the presentation of knowledge to the end user. Applications in many disciplines are driving a
shift in the emphasis of data‐intensive computing from focusing solely on large datasets to the broader realm
of issues dealing with the time to reach a solution when data‐handling capacity is a significant factor, such as
required real‐time processing of massive data streams. Data‐intensive computing facilitates human
understanding of complex problems. Data‐intensive applications provide timely and meaningful analytical
results in response to exponentially growing data complexity and associated analysis requirements through
the development of new classes of software, algorithms, and hardware. In many application domains, data
volumes that must be processed have grown to the petabyte scale while, simultaneously, computational
models and algorithms have pushed the performance of existing computer architectures. The Centre will have
a concrete focus on several application areas: Our initial focus will be related to Commerce (Capital Markets)
and biomedical applications. The initial data types that we would be focusing on will include text, scientific
data consisting of numerical, symbolic and graph structures (e.g. protein‐protein interaction graphs) and
medical images of MRI.
This Centre will be cross disciplinary. Its CIs and PIs are world leading computer scientists, Engineers and
Medical Scientists. The value of large scale knowledge discovery was recently emphasised by the Working
Group of the Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council (PMSEIC), who released a report
“From Data to Wisdom: Pathways to Successful Data Management for Australian Science”. The Director of the
proposed Centre was a member of this PMSEIC working group.
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Appendix E: List of Participants – ARC COE EOI Nov 2009
ARC Centre of Excellence for a Data Rich Society
Time
Role in
commitment
Family name First name Organisation Current position Fellowships held (if applicable) Centre
(percentage
(CD/CI/PI)
FTE)
Kotagiri Ramamohanarao The University of Melbourne Professor of Computer Science 100% CD
Abramson David Monash University Professor of Computer Science ARC Professorial Fellow 30% CI
Zhou Xiaofang The University of Queensland Professor of Computer Science 30% CI
Zhang Chengqi Universty Technology Sydney Professor of Computer Science 30% CI
Zomaya Albert University of Sydney Professor of Computer Science ARC Professorial Fellow (2010) 30% CI
Varadharajan Vijay Macquarie University Professor of Computer Science 30% CI
Zobel Justin The University of Melbourne Professor of Computer Science 20% CI
Moffat Alistair The University of Melbourne Head and Professor of Computer Science 20% CI
Bailey James The University of Melbourne Associate Professor of Computer Science 20% CI
Webb Geoff Monash University Professor of Computer Science 20% CI
Shen Heng Tao The University of Queensland Associate Professor of Computer Science 20% CI
Sadiq Shazia The University of Queensland Associate Professor 20% CI
Abal Eva The University of Queensland Associate Professor 20% CI
Cao Longbing Universty Technology Sydney Professor of Computer Science 20% CI
Distinguished Research Professor of
Keane Michael University Technology Sydney ARC Federation Fellow 20% CI
Marketing
Li Sanjiang University Technology Sydney Associate Professor ARC Future Fellow 20% CI
Fekete Alan The University of Sydney Associate Professor 20% CI
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Venkatesh Svetha Curtin University Professor of Computer Science 20% CI

Lin Xuemin University of New South Wales Professor of Computer Science 20% CI
Taniar David Monash University Associate Professor 20% CI
Srinivasan (Srini) Bala Monash University Professor 20% CI
Krishnaswamy Shonali Monash University Senior Lecturer 20% CI
Professor of Biostatistics, Business Unit
Ryan Louise CSIRO 20% PI
Leader CMIS
Foundation Professor of Neuropsychiatry
Pantelis Christos The University of Melbourne and Scientific Director of the Melbourne 20% CI
Neuropsychiatry Centre
Professor of Ophthalmology
Wong Tien The University of Melbourne 20% CI

Tanin Egemen The University of Melbourne Senior Lecturer 20% CI
Zhang Rui The University of Melbourne 20% CI

Lecturer
Davis Joseph The University of Sydney Associate Professor 20% CI
Chawla Sanjay The University of Sydney Associate Professor 20% CI
Orgun Mehmet Macquarie University Professor 20% CI
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Appendix F: Delegates ‐ PhD School 2009
Name/University Email
Australian National University
Vuong Nguyen vuong.nguyen@anu.edu.au
CSIRO ICT Centre
Quan Bai quan.bai@csiro.au
Griffith University
Pavel Kalinov pavel.kalinov@student.griffith.du.au
Mahdi Parsa m.parsa@griffith.edu.au
Apichat Heednacram apichat.heednacram@student.griffith.edu.au
Huiyuan Zheng hyzheng@ics.mq.edu.au
Aarthi Nagarajan aarthi@science.mq.edu.au
Junqi Zhang janson@ics.mq.edu.au
University of Melbourne
Mei Ma meim@csse.unimelb.edu.au
Pu Zhou puz@csse.unimelb.edu.au
Chunyang Ma monica9900@gmail.com
Tanzima Hashem thashem@csse.unimelb.edu.au
Shaoyi Zhang shaoyi@csse.unimelb.edu.au
Jie Shao jsh@csse.unimelb.edu.au
Md Eunus Ali eunus@csse.unimelb.edu.au
Rui Zhang rui@csse.unimelb.edu.au
University of New South Wales
Thi Khanh Van Tran trantkv@cse.unsw.edu.au
Vincent Tam vincetam@cse.unsw.edu.au
Ghazi Al‐Naymat ghazi@unsw.edu.au
Ryan Choi ryan.h.choi@gmail.com
Myung‐Hee Kim koal0916@gmail.com
Kexin Xie kexin@itee.uq.edu.au
Shamsheer Syed syeds@itee.uq.edu.au
Venkatesan Vellore Srinivasan venkatshrinivas@gmail.com
Kevin Kai Zheng kevinz@itee.uq.edu.au
Mukhammad Andri SETIAWAN andri@itee.uq.edu.au
Qi Nick Chen chenqi@itee.uq.edu.au
Naiem K Yeganeh naiem@itee.uq.edu.au
Syed Norris Hikmi Abdullah norris@itee.uq.edu.au
Qing Xie felixq@itee.uq.edu.au
Kuien Liu kliu@itee.uq.edu.au
Mohammed Gollapalli mohammed@itee.uq.edu.au
Guohe Li ligh@itee.uq.edu.au
Huanliang Sun sunhl@itee.uq.edu.au
Liwei Wang liwei@itee.uq.edu.au
Mandy Mahinderjit Singh uqmmahin@itee.uq.edu.au
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Thien Wan Au twau@itee.uq.edu.au
Queensland University of

Technology
Aiiad Albeshri a.albeshri@student.qut.edu.au
Bandar Alhaqbani b.alhaqbani@isi.qut.edu.au
Swinburne University
Xiaohui Zhao XZhao@groupwise.swin.edu.au
University of Sydney
Mohammad Alomari miomari@it.usyd.edu.au
Pengyi Yang yangpy@it.usyd.edu.au
Florian Verhein florian@verhein.com
Sakshi Babbar sakshib@it.usyd.edu.au
Paul Yoo paul.usyd@gmail.com
Ammar Elnour ammar@cs.usyd.edu.au
Winly Jurnawan wjur7699@usyd.edu.au
Victoria University
Jiangang Ma jiangang.ma@live.vu.edu.au
Jing He jing@csm.vu.edu.au
University of Southern Queensland
Hua Wang wang@usq.edu.au
Leigh de la Motte lhdela@postoffice.utas.edu.au
University of Technology, Sydney
Bo Liu csbliu@gmail.com
Jie Zhang jiezhang@it.uts.edu.au
Ziye Zuo zzuo@it.uts.edu.au
Guohua Liang gliang@it.uts.edu.au
Yanshan Xiao xiaoyanshan@gmail.com
University of Wollongong
Azlan Ismail ai423@uow.edu.au
Fenghui Ren fr510@uow.edu.au
Dayong Ye dy721@uow.edu.au
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during the school. The overall ideas and

Appendix G: Feedback ‐ PhD implementation of the school is very good.
School 2009 Winly Jurnawan, PhD Candidate, The University of
Sydney
I am a finishing PhD student who has had the
opportunity to attend EII PhD schools held in the The PhD School gave me a great chance to
years 2007, 2008 and 2009. I have generally found network/meet with other PhD students.
that the PhD school is very well organized, people Thi Khanh Van Tran, PhD Candidate, The
are very friendly and the school takes care of its University of New South Wales
students reasonably well. I have found attending I believe that the PhD School has exposed me not
the EII PhD schools a very enriching experience only to the knowledge about conducting PhD
especially because it helps to meet people from research in general, but also has provided me with
other areas of research and from all over a venue to share and explore others’ experiences
Australia. Although my main area of research has in research.
been in security, I have also enjoyed listening to Syed Norris Hikmi Abdullah, PhD Candidate, The
talks that are not directly related to my area of University of Queensland
research. My only regret is that the number of
talks in the area of security was usually restricted The two PhD Schools, 2008 and 2009, which I
to one session and in the year 2008 that too had attended have been excellent. I preferred the
to be cancelled due to unforeseeable reasons. I programmes and presentations in 2008, but I am
would like to thank the organizers of EII for the also not too sure about the validity of this
wonderful opportunity that I have had in the last comment as the presentations are research
few years to attend this school. Particularly, I specific and the subject matter appeals differently
enjoyed the year 2008 school that was held in to different researchers. The organization has
Kioloa which helped me appreciate the life in the been excellent in both the PhD Schools.
bush! Venkatesan Vellore Srinivasan, Masters
Aarthi Nagarajan, PhD Candidate, Macquarie Candidate, The University of Queensland
University The PhD School experience was quite rewarding.
I found the PhD School is very necessary for The School helps early researchers to build a big
research students because during this event we picture of research foundations; facilitates the
can share ideas with each other, and expand our exploration of interesting areas; inspires new
knowledge and background. I hope more PhD ideas; allows crucial networking with other
Schools can be held. researchers; and shows us how to enjoy research
Bo Liu, PhD Candidate, University of Technology, life!
Sydney Ziye Zuo, PhD Candidate, University of
Technology, Sydney
It was a good opportunity for me to know a range
of researchers and to talk to them about different This event was a great opportunity for me to meet
topics. Having seen what other students are and share ideas with academics and PhD students
doing, it gave me inspiration and better in Australia. Presentations were valuable and
motivation in doing my own research. Thanks for inspiring. Overall, the PhD school delivered a very
the event! positive influence for my PhD study.
Vincent Tam, PhD Candidate, The University of Myung‐Hee Kim, PhD Candidate, The University of
New South Wales New South Wales
I got to know and discuss research ideas with The PhD School gave me very valuable experience,

many students and teachers who are working in a as it provided an opportunity to talk to many
similar research field to me. That is great. students from other universities about their
Moreover, the emails from the EII mailing list are research, current research related problems and
really helpful! also general issues [not necessarily related to
Shaoyi Zhang, PhD Candidate, The University of research] that occurred while doing their PhDs. I
Melbourne could compare my progress with other students
who were in a similar situation as me, and see
The school is very good especially for meeting how I had been doing in terms of research. Daily
students in similar research fields from other university life rarely provides this kind of
research institutions, as well as exposure to the opportunity. The guest speakers were excellent.
expert speakers. This is a rare opportunity for the Their lectures definitely helped me to understand
research student to exchange the information a broad range of topics in a very short period of
about their research. I also gained substantial time. It would have taken many weeks if I had
new knowledge from the lessons conducted decided to study these areas alone by reading
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papers and books. Some topics were not directly of questions on how to improve my thesis writing,

related to my research, but understanding other as well as the direction of my actual research. The
areas will definitely be of benefit to my research in school was inspiring from this angle, but in
the future. addition, I made some connections with other
Ryan Choi, PhD Candidate, The University of New students, and we have remained in contact since
South Wales the event.
Apichat Heednacram, PhD Candidate, Griffith
The lecture on Databases & Similarity given by Dr
University
Hanan Samet was one of best themes during
recent PhD schools. [I previously attended the The PhD School provided me with a good chance
2007 school]. This seminar was highly informative to not only learn novel techniques from top
from a world authority in this area, and provided researchers in the area, but to also discover
very practical approaches. For example, I was collaboration opportunities with researchers in
exposed to information about how to properly other institutions. It was very helpful for my
develop theory and algorithms which has helped research. Some new methods that I learned from
improve the quality of my research. the school in the area of spatial databases and
Jiangang Ma, PhD Candidate, Victoria University data mining [Prof Hanan Samet] have since been
applied in my current research project.
This annual event invites some of the world’s top
Dr Quan Bai, Postdoctoral Fellow, CSIRO ICT
experts to present their current research
Centre, Tasmania
directions. In 2009, Prof Elisa Bertino introduced
the history of database security, as well as the The PhD School was a good environment for new
research work undertaken by her group. The students to learn, communicate and share
organization of the PhD school was excellent for information and knowledge. From the lectures
both students and academic scholars. given by famous international researchers, we
Dr Hua Wang, Associate Professor, University of gained a systematic view and deep insight into
Southern Queensland related research areas. More importantly, they
also provided some promising research directions
As a result of this PhD school, I was exposed to
which will prove very helpful for our future work.
current and in depth knowledge about different
By communicating with our peers from different
research areas, in particular, a wider picture of
universities, we also established connections with
database research areas. Furthermore, I got to
other research staff and create new opportunities
meet some major people in the database area,
to collaborate.
including well known professors with high quality
Kai Zheng, PhD Candidate, The University of
papers, as well as students at the beginning of
Queensland
their research careers, like me. This kind of
communication greatly impacted on my research. The lectures were very inspirational and
Qing Xie, PhD Candidate, The University of broadened my perspective. I enjoyed them a lot.
Queensland Kexin Xie, PhD Candidate, The University of
Queensland
I greatly enjoyed the PhD School experience. The
lectures enhanced my understanding about how a
real researcher seeks an unsolved research point
from a real application and deals with a problem
from a reasonable perspective. At the same time,
it inspired excellence in conducting research.
Dr Liwei Wang, Visiting Scholar, The University of
Queensland
Lessons I learnt from attending the PhD school
include: How famous researchers develop a small
idea to a big theory; How to research more
effectively; How to present a complicated idea
with very simple examples; and how to
communicate effectively with fellow researchers.
Thanks again for providing this opportunity.
Mahdi Parsa, PhD Candidate, Griffith University
Attending the PhD school has inspired me to work
harder on my thesis. I particularly liked the section
on “Good Research: Is it New? Is it True? Is it a
Good Story?”. It prompted me to ask myself a lot
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Appendix H: Program ‐ PhD School 2009

START END Thursday 16 April Friday 17 April Saturday 18 April Sunday 19 April Monday 20 April
8.00 8.30 EII Bus departs West End EII Bus departs West End EII Bus departs West End

EII Bus arrives St Leo's EII Bus arrives St Leo's EII Bus arrives Qld
8.30 9.00 College, UQ, Welcome College, UQ, Welcome Bioscience Precinct, UQ,
Tea/Coffee Tea/Coffee Welcome Tea/Coffee
9.00 9.30
EII Bus departs West
9.30 10.00
Lecture 1: A/Prof Alan Lecture 3: Prof Hanan End Tutorial 1: Dr Peer Kröger

Fekete Samet EII Bus arrives St Leo's & Dr Matthias Renz
10.00 10.30 College, UQ, Welcome
Tea/Coffee
10.30 11.00 Break Break Break
11.00 11.30 Lecture 4: Prof Elisa
Lecture 1: A/Prof Alan Lecture 3: Prof Hanan Bertino Tutorial 1: Dr Peer Kröger
11.30 12.00
Fekete Samet & Dr Matthias Renz
12.00 12.30
12.30 13.00
Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch
13.00 13.30
13.30 14.00 Arrive during afternoon ‐
Accommodation for interstate Lecture 2: Prof Shirley Lecture 3: Prof Hanan Tutorial 2: Dr Gautam
14.00 14.30 delegates: Central West End Lecture 4: Prof Elisa
Gregor Samet Das
14.30 15.00 Apartments Bertino
15.00 15.30 220 Melbourne Street Break Break Break
West End QLD 4101
15.30 16.00 Break
Phone: 07 3011 8333
16.00 16.30 http://www.centralwestend.com.au/ Lecture 2: Prof Shirley Lecture 3: Prof Hanan Tutorial 3: Dr Aparna
Gregor Samet Lecture 4: Prof Elisa Varde, & Dr Richi Nayak
16.30 17.00 Bertino
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17.00 17.30 EII PhD School Dinner ‐ School Ends

17.30 18.00 St Leo's College, UQ
EII Bus departs St Leo's
18.00 18.30 UQ for Kookaburra
Queen
EII Bus arrives
EII PhD School Poster
18.30 19.00 Kookaburra Queen,
Night: Best Poster
Eagle Street Pier
Awards ‐ St Leo's
College, UQ Boarding: Kookaburra
19.00 19.30 Queen River Cruise &
Social night: Enjoy your Dinner
EII PhD School Welcome Dinner ‐ own arrangements
19.30 20.00
Wang Dynasty Restaurant, Southbank,
Brisbane EII Bus departs St Leo's
20.00 20.30 Kookaburra Queen
College, UQ
River Cruise & Dinner
20.30 21.00 EII Bus arrives West End
21.00 21.30
Return: Kookaburra
Queen River Cruise &
21.30 22.00 Dinner. EII Bus departs
Kookaburra Queen for
West End
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Appendix I: Delegates
2nd Sino‐Australian IT Research & Education Summit
Australian Delegation
Chair: Prof Richard Coleman, Executive Director, Physical, Mathematical and Information Sciences, ARC
Vice Chair: Prof Xiaofang Zhou, Convenor and Director, ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information
Infrastructure
Members: (17 participants, in alphabetic order)
• Paul Bailes, Head, School of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering, The University of
Queensland
• Sanjay Chawla, Head, School of Information Technologies, The University of Sydney
• Richard Coleman, Executive Director, Physical, Mathematical & Information Sciences, Australian Research
Council
• Henry Gardner, Head, School of Computer Science, The Australian National University
• Tom Gedeon, Professor of Computer Science, The Australian National Universit y
• Guido Governatori, Associate Education Director, National ICT Australia
• Ramamohanarao (Rao) Kotagiri, Professor in Computer Science, The University of Melbourne
• Xuemin Lin, Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, The University of New South Wales
• Alistair Moffat, Head, School of Computer Science & Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne
• Aruna Seneviratne, Australian Technology Park Laboratory Director, National ICT Australia
• David Suter, Head, School of Computer Science, The University of Adelaide
• Mark Wallace, Professor, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University
• Kathleen Williamson, Network Manager, ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure,
• Jingling Xue, Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, The University of New South Wales
• Yanchun Zhang, Director, Centre for Applied Informatics Research, Victoria University
• Bing Bing Zhou, Associate Dean, Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney
• Xiaofang Zhou, Professor of Computer Science and Convenor, ARC Research Network in Enterprise
Information Infrastructure, The University of Queensland
China Delegation
Chair: Professor Jiaguang Sun, Vice president of National Natural Science Foundation of China, Dean
of School of Information, Tsinghua University,
Vice Chair: Professor Zhaotian Zhang, Deputy director, Department of Information Sciences, National
Natural Science Foundation of China
Members: (28 participants in alphabetic order)
• Xiaoyong Du, Dean, School of Information, Renmin University of China
• Yuxi Fu, Head, Department of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiaotong University
• Ji‐Feng He (Academician), Dean, Software Engineering Institute, East China Normal University
• Yanxiang He, Dean , Computer School, Wuhan University
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• Jiwu Huang, Dean, School of Information Science and Technology, Sun Yat‐Sen University
• Guohui Li, Vice Dean, School of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of
Science and Technology
• Mingshu Li, Director, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Ke Liu, Director, Division of Computer Science, Directorate of Information Sciences, National
Natural Science Foundation of China
• Xiaoming Li, Director, Institute of Network Computing and Information Systems, Peking
University
• Xuandong Li, Head, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University
• Jianzhong Li, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of
Technology
• Dianfu Ma, Dean, School of Computer science and engineering, Beijing University of Aeronautics
and Astronautics (Beihang University)
• Hong Mei, Dean, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University
• Xiangxu Meng, Dean, School of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong University
• Yuwen Qin, Deputy Director, Directorate of Information Sciences, National Natural Science
Foundation of China
• JiaGuang Sun, Academician, Vice President, National Natural Science Foundation of China; and Dean,
School of Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University
• Maosong Sun, Head, Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University
• Yuan‐Yan Tang, Dean, College of Computer Science, Chongqing University
• Huaimin Wang, Deputy Dean, School of Computer Science and Technology, National University of
Defense Technology
• Jianmin Wang, Deputy Dean, School of Software, Tsinghua University
• Xiangyang Xue, Deputy Dean, School of Computer Science and Technology, Fudan University
• Xiaofei Xu, Dean, School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology
• Ge Yu, Deputy Dean, School of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University
• Yi Zhang, Dean, College of Computer Science, Sichuan University
• Zhaotian Zhang, Deputy Director, Directorate of Information Sciences, National Natural Science
Foundation of China
• Aoying Zhou, Deputy Dean, School of Software, East China Normal University
• Xingshe Zhou, Dean, School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University
• Yueting Zhuang, Dean, School of Computer Science, Zhejiang University
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Appendix J: Program
2nd Sino‐Australian IT Research & Education Summit
Program at‐a‐glance
Thursday 26 November Friday 27 November
9.00 – 10.30 Opening Session Education Session
Welcome & Program Overview (by Prof. Chairs: Prof. Alistair Moffat, University of
Maosong Sun, Tsinghua Univeristy) Melbourne & Prof. Jianming Wang, Tsinghua
Welcome speech (by Prof. Sun Jiaguang, University
NSFC) Invited Talks:
Report of the 1st Summit (by Prof. Xiaofang Keynote 4 by Prof. Paul Bailes, University of
Zhou, UQ and EII) Queensland
Introduction to NSFC (by Professor Liu Ke, Keynote 5 by Prof. Xiaoming Li, Peking
NSFC) University
Funding Research Excellence in Australia ‐
Introduction to the Australian Research
Council (by Professor Richard Colemen,
ARC)
10.30 – 11.00 Morning Tea
11.00 – 12.00 Brief 3‐Minute introductions by delegates Panel Discussion: Cultivation model of Computing
and their institutions in round table session Talents in Liberal Education: Challenges and
Countermeasures
Chairs: Prof. Sanjay Chawla, University of Chair: Prof Paul Bailes (UQ) & Prof. Xiaofei Xu
Sydney & Prof. Xiaoyong Du, Renmin (HIT)
University Panelists: Prof. Yuxi FU (SJTU), Dr Guido
Governatori (NICTA), Prof. Yanxiang HE (WU),
Prof. Xuandong LI (NU), Dr Bing Bing Zhou (USYD)
12:00‐12:30 Discussions on establishing the 985‐Go8 IT
Research and Education Summit (ITRES) Steering
Committee (Chaired by Prof Xuemin Lin (UNSW) &
Prof. Hai Jin (HUST)
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch Lunch
14.00 – 15.30 Research Session
(Chairs: Prof. Hong Mei, Peking University &
Prof. David Suter, University of Adelaide)
Invited Talks:
Keynote 1 by Prof. Rao Kotagiri, University Visit Microsoft Research Asia [MSRA]:
of Melbourne) 13.30: Intro & Welcome, Dr Hsiao‐Wuen Hon,
Keynote 2 by Prof. Jianzhong Li, HIT Managing Director, MSRA
Keynote3 by Prof. Huaiming Wang, NUDT 14.00: Dr Eric Chang, Director of Technology
15.30 ‐ 16.00 Afternoon Tea Strategy, MSRA
16.00 ‐ 17.00 Panel Discussion: Research Opportunities and 14.45: Dr Feng Zhao & Dr Weiying Ma, Assistant
Sino‐Australia Collaboration Managing Directors, MSRA, and Dr Hang Li,
Chairs: Prof. Mingshu Li (CAS) & Prof. Mark Research Manager, MSRA
Wallace (Monash) 15.30: Dr Xing Xie, Lead Researcher, MSRA
Panelists: Prof Sanjay Chawla (USYD), Prof
Tom Gedeon (ANU), Prof. Jianmin Wang
(Tsinghua), Prof. Xiaofei Xu (HIT), Prof
Jingling Xue (UNSW), Prof Yanchun Zhang
(VU), Prof. Aoying Zhou (ECNU)
18.00 – 21.00 Summit Banquet Dinner hosted by Renmin University

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Detailed Program
26 Nov (Thursday) – All delegates

Opening Session(9:00‐10:30)
• Welcome & Program Overview (by Prof. Maosong Sun, Tsinghua University)
• Welcome speech (by Prof. Jiaguang Sun NSFC)
• Report of the 1st Summit (by Prof. Xiaofang Zhou, UQ and EII)
• Introduction to NSFC (by Professor Ke Liu, NSFC)
• Funding Research Excellence in Australia ‐ Introduction to the Australian Research Council
(by Professor Richard Colemen, ARC)

Self‐Introduction Session(11:00‐12:30)
Chairs: Prof. Sanjay Chawla, University of Sydney & Prof. Xiaoyong Du, Renmin University
• Brief 3‐Minute introductions by delegates and their institutions in round table session

Research Session (14:00‐15:30)
Chairs: Prof. Hong Mei, Peking University & Prof. David Suter, University of Adelaide
Keynote 1 Prof. Rao Kotagiri, University of Melbourne
Title: Data rich Societies and Challenges
Keynote 2 Prof. Jianzhong Li, HIT
Title: Massive Data and Data Intensive Super Computing
Abstract: Recent years, data‐intensive super computing systems (DISCS) have been created by Google
and its competitors in response to the rapidly growing in dataset size and the need of high
performance analyzing of massive datasets. DISCSs are different from conventional
supercomputers since they acquire and maintain continually changing data sets and perform
large‐scale computations over the data. DISCSs open up new opportunities to achieve great
advances in science, biology and health care, industry and business efficiencies, and so on,
and it has become a new research field in the 21 century. This talk will discuss the concepts,
motivation, challenges and research issues of DISCS. Some our solutions are also presented.
Keynote 3 Prof. Huaiming Wang, NUDT
Title: Software in Internet Age in China
Abstract: Internet has becoming a crucial information infrastructure of modern society. In the past
decade, middleware has been recognized as a basic solution to meet the challenges for
Internet computing, such as Internet‐scale application, ubiquitous computing capability and
constantly changes in system requirement. The first part of this talk present our
understanding of distributed object computing middleware technology, as well as an
introduction to our practices through the research and development around StarBus+, PKUAS,
WebSASE and ONCE. With the rising of new computing paradigms, such as P2P and Grid
computing, we have put forward several novel research programs on the software foundation
of Internet‐scale resource sharing and collaboration, including: internetware, iVCE and
CROWN. The rest of this talk will focus on our understanding and perspective of next
generation Internet computing platform. We believe that the new paradigm will come from
the convergence of diverse approaches, interplay between IT and other disciplines and the
constantly changing and emerging visions.

Panel Discussion (16:00‐17:00)
Chairs: Prof. Mingshu Li (CAS) & Prof. Mark Wallace (Monash)
Panelists: Prof Sanjay Chawla (USYD), Prof Tom Gedeon (ANU), Prof. Jianmin Wang (Tsinghua), Prof.
Xiaofei Xu (HIT), Prof Jingling Xue (UNSW), Prof Yanchun Zhang (VU), Prof. Aoying Zhou (ECNU)
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Topic: Research Opportunities and Sino‐Australia Collaboration
Focus: Web scale software and data management techniques

Summit Banquet (18:00‐21:00)

27 Nov Morning (Friday) – All Delegates

Education Session (9:00‐10:30)
Chairs: Prof. Alistair Moffat (Melbourne) & Prof. Jianming Wang (Tsinghua)
Keynote 4 Prof. Paul Bailes (UQ)
Title: Making Lemons into Lemonade: implications for teaching in a research‐intensive university
Abstract: In research‐intensive universities such as those in the Chinese 98‐5 project and the Australian
Go8, it sometimes appears that teaching has to take second place behind the demands of
research. For example: academics' time focuses on research; discretionary university funds
are allocated to research facilities. We explore how these realities can be managed and turned
to advantage in key teaching‐related matters such as selection of staff, curriculum design and
budget management.
Keynote 5 Prof. Xiaoming Li (Peking)
Title: Understanding Undergraduate Computing Education in China

Panel Discussion (11:00‐12:00)
Chairs: Prof. Xiaofei Xu (HIT) & Australian co‐Chair
Panelists: Prof. Yuxi FU (SJTU), Dr Guido Governatori (NICTA), Prof. Yanxiang HE (WU), Prof. Xuandong LI
(NU), Dr Bing Bing Zhou (USYD)
Topic: Cultivation model of Computing Talents in Liberal Education: Challenges and Countermeasures
Focus: General Education and Undergraduate Computer Science Students ‐ Issues and Strategies
Questions: 1) Liberal education or classified education or professional education?
2) More CS fundamental knowledge or more IT technical training?
3) Approaches to cultivate computing talents: challenge and countermeasure?
4) How to enhance the creativity, innovation ability of students in CS and IT?
5) Education collaboration models between Chinese universities and Australian universities?

Discussion (12:00‐12:30)
Discussion on establishing the 985‐Go8 IT Research and Education Summit (ITRES) Steering Committee
Chaired by Prof Xuemin Lin (UNSW) & Prof Hai Jin (HUST)

27 Nov Afternoon (Friday) – Australian delegates only
• 1:30‐ 4:00pm Visit Microsoft Research Asia [MSRA]
• 6.00 – 8.00 pm Dinner (hosted by Renmin University)
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Appendix K: Program
Workshop on Location Based Social Networks (LBSN’09)

Paper Session 1: Understanding Users in LBSN
8:30‐10:00
Chair: Xiaofang Zhou (University of Queensland, Australia)
Chih‐Chieh Hung, Chih‐Wen Chang and Wen‐Chih Peng. Mining

Trajectory Profiles for Discovering User Communities
Kazuki Kodama, Yuichi Iijima, Xi Guo and Yoshiharu Ishikawa. Skyline
Queries Based on User Locations and Preferences for Making
Location‐Based Recommendations
Vincent Wenchen Zheng, Yu Zheng and Qiang Yang. Joint Learning

User's Activities and Profiles from GPS Data
Daisuke Yamamoto, Itsu Takumi and Hiroshi Matsuo. Location‐Based

Social Network Services Employing Student Cards for University
10:00‐10:30 Coffee Break
Paper Session 2: Understanding Trajectories in LBSN
10:30‐12:00
Chair: Kazutoshi Sumiya (University of Hyogo, Japan)
Kexin Xie, Ke Deng and Xiaofang Zhou. From Trajectories to Activities:

A Spatio‐Temporal Join Approach
Yukun Chen, Kai Jiang, Yu Zheng, Chunping Li and Nenghai
Yu. Trajectory Simplification Method for Location‐Based Social
Networking Services
Guangzhong sun, Zhong Zhang and Jing Yuan. An Efficient Pre‐
Computation Technique for Approximation KNN Search in Road
Networks
Handong wang, Haixiang ZOU, Yang Yue and Qingquan Li. Visualizing

Hot Spot Analysis Result Based on Mashup
12:00‐13:30 Lunch (On your own)
Paper Session 3: Understanding Multimedia in LBSN
13:30‐15:00
Chair: Yoshiharu Ishikawa (Nagoya University, Japan)
Dong‐Po Deng, Tyng‐Ruey Chuang and Rob
Lemmens. Conceptualization of Place via Spatial Clustering and Co‐
occurrence Analysis
Daniel Leung and Shawn Newsam. Proximate Sensing Using

Georeferenced Community Contributed Photo Collections
Xin Lu, Yanwei Pang, Qiang Hao and Lei Zhang. Visualizing Textual

Travelogue with Location‐Relevant Images
Kazutoshi Sumiya. Less‐Conscious Information Retrieval Techniques

for Location Based Services
15:00‐15:30 Coffee Break
Paper Session 4: Applications of LBSN
15:30‐17:00
Chair: Xing Xie (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Bertrand De Longueville, Robin S. Smith and Gianluca Luraschi.
“OMG, from here, I can see the flames!”: a use case of mining

Location Based Social Networks to acquire spatiotemporal data on
forest fires
Hassan Karimi, Benjamin Zimmerman, Alper Ozcelik and Duangduen
Roongpiboonsopit. SoNavNet: A Framework for Social Navigation
Networks
Edward Pultar and Martin Raubal. A Case for Space: Physical and

Virtual Location Requirements in the CouchSurfing Social Network
Tobias Lange, Marek Kowalkiewicz, Thomas Springer and Tobias
Raub. Overcoming challenges in delivering services to social networks
in location centric scenarios
17:00‐17:30 Closing Remarks and Adjournment of Workshop
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Appendix L: MSRA Newsletter
Workshop on Location Based Social Networks (LBSN’09)
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/lbsn-120909.aspx
Location‐Based Social Networks Take Off
By Rob Knies
December 9, 2009 2:00 PM PT
Many millions of computer users around the world have incorporated social networks into their everyday
lives, and it’s a safe assumption that an increasingly large proportion of those users are carrying GPS
functionality in their mobile phones.
It’s odd, then, that to upload photos, write blogs, or communicate with friends, users still often need to work
from a desktop computer. Wouldn’t it make sense to bring the two together, so those social netizens can
track and share personal location information on the go?
Xing Xie thinks so.
Xiaofang Zhou (right) of the University of Queensland, general chair of the
International Workshop on Location Based Social Networks, congratulates Chih‐
Wen Chang, of Taiwan's National Chiao Tung University. Chang presented the
paper named the best of the workshop.
That’s what spurred him, along with Xiaofang Zhou, a professor of Computer Science at Australia’s University
of Queensland, to organize the inaugural International Workshop on Location Based Social Networks (LBSN),
held in Seattle on Nov. 3 in conjunction with the Association for Computing Machinery’s 17th SIGSPATIAL
International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems.
“The objective of this workshop,” explains Xie, a lead researcher at Microsoft Research Asia, “is to provide a
single forum for researchers and technologists to discuss the state of the art, present their contributions, and
set future directions in emerging innovative research for location‐based social networks.”
From all appearances, consider that goal met. Of four parallel workshops held during the conference, LBSN
drew the most attendees. During the larger conference, the workshop was cited as the “most successful” of
those associated with the conference.
“It went very well,” Xie says. “It attracted 33 registrants, and there were lots of discussions and interactions
during the workshop. Everyone seemed to think the workshop was great.”
Wen‐Chih Peng, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Taiwan’s National Chiao Tung
University, concurred.
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“During the LBSN workshop, we saw many interesting paper presentations and lots of interactions among
researchers all over the world,” he said. “With the increasing popularity of smartphones, we believe that LBSN
will provide a fresh frontier to explore new research topics.”
Indeed, Xie indicates that the initial experience has the organizers considering making this an annual event.
“We are discussing next year, since it was quite successful this time,” he says. “In a workshop survey asking if
those at the workshop would like to attend in the future, we got a 100‐percent yes vote.”
While held in Seattle to gain more impact by its association with the SIGSPATIAL conference, the workshop
actually supports Microsoft Research Asia’s theme of Internet Services in its collaboration projects with
universities in the Asia Pacific region. The event furthered the goal of the University Relations team at
Microsoft Research Asia to build a broader academic community in the region.
The workshop actually broadened the community of interested academics to global scale. While many
professors—representing universities from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and Australia— funded by the
University Relations team got an opportunity to present their work and, in many cases, to provide leadership
as part of the program committee, the event also attracted faculty members from the United States and
Europe.
LBSN Defined
The workshop’s Web site defines LBSN as “social network services where people can track and share location‐
related information with each other, via either mobile or desktop computers. As location is one of the most
important aspects for people’s everyday lives, a lot of novel application scenarios can be supported by LBSN.
For example, we can collect and share more trustworthy location recommendations within LBSN and use
them to rank interesting locations and to discover new places, people, and activities.”
With the workshop having concluded, Xie takes an opportunity to elaborate.
“You could track and share your travel trajectory with your friends in real time,” he says, “and they would
know where you are from their phones. And you can also share comments, status, and photos, together with
your location information.
“Another example is recommendations. When you are in a new city, you could receive suggestions about a
good restaurant that has been visited by your friends and that matches your preference.”
The Web site also cites a long list of potential topics of interest for this and, potentially, subsequent
workshops, ranging from spatial data mining and knowledge discovery, to geo‐tagged multimedia mining, to
location privacy, data sharing , and security.
The workshop itself was organized into four paper sessions of four presented papers each:
• Understanding Users in LBSN.
• Understanding Trajectories in LBSN.
• Understanding Multimedia in LBSN.
• Applications of LBSN.
A presentation titled Mining Trajectory Profiles for Discovering User Communities—written by Peng in
conjunction with his National Chiao Tung University colleagues Chih‐Chieh Hung and Chih‐Wen Chang—was
named best paper of the workshop. But all 16 papers delivered—eight long, eight short—were focused on the
goal of bringing social networking into real life by enabling experiences that can be shared more conveniently.
This work dovetails with the research vision espoused by Xie and his Microsoft Research Asia colleagues,
summarized in the words “build intelligence from the physical world.”
New Intelligence, New Opportunities
This means, Xie says, that context‐aware computing seeks to link changes in the environment with computer
systems. Computing systems become more intelligent through analysis and reaction to the physical world
surrounding them, and the arrival of cloud computing brings new opportunities to this area. Accumulation
and aggregation of physical‐world contextual information from multiple users and multiple devices over a
long period can provide collective social intelligence.
“Based on this, more innovative Internet services can be developed to facilitate people’s everyday lives,” Xie
says. “At Microsoft Research Asia, we are working on various technologies with a view to managing physical‐
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world information and building intelligence from them. We link data generated by different people, services,
or sensors, based on a unified knowledge model, and provide the intelligence as a service in the cloud.
“LBSN can be one particular example of our vision, by building intelligence from human trajectories and
helping social‐networking services.”
Xie has been mining this territory since 2007, when he observed the power of adding location and mobile
access to social networks. Since then, the convergence has advanced rapidly. It is said that more than 40
percent of mobile phones will have GPS capability by 2011 and that location‐based services will mushroom to
a market of 13 billion by 2013.
One of the projects his team has spearheaded, GeoLife, an effort led by Yu Zheng, has already explored this
area, and others are sure to follow, given the success of the workshop.
During the event, Xie served as program chair, while Gang Guan, a University Relations manager, acted as
local chair.
In addition, Xie served as chair for the Applications of LBSN paper session and delivered a welcome speech to
attendees and participants. Guan also spoke, introducing Microsoft Research Asia and its university
collaboration programs.
‘Very Good Results’
“Early this year,” Guan says, “Microsoft Research Asia sponsored eight projects regarding location‐based
services across the Asia Pacific region as part of the Internet Services theme program. We’re glad that those
projects produced very good results in such a short time.”
Iqbal Mohomed, a post‐doctoral researcher at Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, was one of 12 members of
the workshop’s program committee. Others representing Microsoft Research Asia for the event were Lei
Zhang, lead researcher; Zheng, an associate researcher; and Xin Zou, principal development manager.
Of the 16 papers delivered during LBSN, three were written all or in part by Microsoft Research Asia
personnel:
• Trajectory Simplification Method for Location‐Based Social Networking Services, by Zheng.
• Joint Learning User's Activities and Profiles from GPS Data, by intern Vincent W. Zheng, Yu Zheng,
and Qiang Yang, who, like Vincent Zheng, represented The Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology.
• Visualizing Textual Travelogue with Location‐Relevant Images, by Xin Lu, Yanwei Pang, and Qiang
Hao of Tianjin University, along with Zhang.
Five other LBSN papers were produced under the Internet Services theme.
In short, the workshop proved a quite rewarding for all concerned.
“People are really excited about this direction,” Xie says, “and a lot of good work is just starting. We can see
great potential.”

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Knowledge Discovery and Business Intelligence

Appendix M: Feedback areas helped refocus some of my research ideas
2009 International Colloquium on Data and opened me to the possibilities of future
research in this area
Sciences, Knowledge Discovery and
Dr Ghazi Al‐Naymat, Postdoctoral Research
Business Intelligence (DSKDBI09) Fellow, The University of New South Wales
DSKDBI09 provided me with a chance to My attendance in DSKDBI'09 has opened my
communicate with, and especially to learn understanding to various techniques and practices
knowledge from world‐wide known researchers in in knowledge discovery and data mining. The
Data Sciences like Prof Philip Yu. Also, DSKDBI09 industry presentations were the most interesting
helped me to update my knowledge of some well as we get to hear practical issues and solutions
known data processing software, e.g. SPSS and that are relevant for exploration in our academic
MatLab. Also, I used this chance to share my research.
research experience with others in this research Dr Flora Salim, Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
area (I gave a presentation about Vector RMIT University
Clustering from unclean data sets). The knowledge
and experience gained from DSKDBI09 helped me The DSKDBI09 colloquium offered a great
solve some problems and/or improve our existing opportunity to meet with senior researchers and
data analysis approaches in my data mining and professionals. Through discussions, I not only
analysing project in 2009. Also, this colloquium solved several hard research problems but also
helped me get to know some potential research widened my views on my research topic. The
collaborators in Australia. colloquium also provided me with valuable
Mr Fenghui Ren, PhD Candidate, University of opportunities to communicate with people from
Wollongong industry/government, which is normally hard to
find on university campuses. The practitioners and
The highlight of DSKDBI09 was Philip S. Yu's vendors from world‐famous companies made me
presentation about data mining. After the aware of how far my theoretical research is from
presentation we discussed the issues further with real practice in industry. This realization has
him, and he gave me some valuable comments on prepared me well for when I finish my research
my research. I have grasped some idea of how to degree and step into industry in future.
use SAS, a data mining tool, to help me analyse Mr Wei Liu, PhD Candidate, The University of
data sets. At DSKDBI09 I found that Matlab could Sydney
also do some data mining jobs too. This event
also provided the chance for discussions with DSKDBI09 provided me a great chance to meet
other colleagues who have the same research with researchers from around the world, and to
interests. learn what other people are investigating. It
Mr Shaojie Yuan, PhD Candidate, University of reviewed the fundamentals of data mining and
Wollongong business intelligence, as well as delivered the
most advance applications in these fields. I
It was a positive experience to attend the refreshed my knowledge of data mining and
DSKDBI09 Colloquium as a research student business intelligence, which has impacted my
because we had the opportunity to hear from future research. I enjoyed the conference, not just
advanced researchers. It was also a great learning learning the delivered materials, but also talking
environment since it provided a combined one‐ to leading professors in my field. It was a great
stop solution including fundamentals, opportunity to extend my networks and
advancements, as well as practical case studies knowledge.
from world‐class vendors. Mr Bing Liu, Research Assistant, University of
Mr Huairen Lin, PhD Candidate, The University of South Australia
Sydney
I attended the Colloquium in my first year of PhD,
My attendance at the 2009 International and it helped me greatly not only to establish a
Colloquium on Data Sciences, Knowledge stronger understanding of foundations in the area
Discovery and Business Intelligence (DSKDBI09) of Knowledge Discovery, but also exposed me to
was a great opportunity especially after just expert opinions from leading researchers. These
finishing a degree in the area of data mining. The gave me an excellent opportunity to streamline
colloquium showed me the applicability of what I my ideas for future research.
studied and what I have learned thus far. I met Mr Muzammil Baig, PhD Candidate, University of
leading researchers from around the world, who South Australia
inspired me to embed my knowledge in many
other fields. Seeing the practicality of the
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The Colloquium provided an excellent opportunity tangible level it provide a time to review and

to get to know researchers from across Australia expand my insight into the field and to broaden
who are working in data science, knowledge my perspective.
discovery and business intelligence. Also, it was a Mr Phillip Lock, PhD Candidate, University of
good opportunity to meet leading researchers South Australia
who gave a talk. I was impressed with the quality
It was very beneficial to have a world class
of invited speakers. I particularly found useful
researcher, Philip Yu, summarise his research
talks from invited speakers related to Enterprise
work. His research viewpoint is quite unique and is
Applications because they talked about real life
an inspiration. It was also very beneficial to have
systems and how data mining is applied to
business people to talk latest business progresses.
particular business, which helped me to get some
I took note that business people emphasize on
new ideas how particular real life problem can be
result interpretation and visualization, instead of
solved. In summary, it was very useful in
efficiency, as most academics talk about. This has
networking and learning about real systems
led me to do research on the interpretation and
challenges, which provided me with some new
visualization of data mining results.
research questions.
Dr Jiuyong Li, Associate Professor, University of
Dr Bela Stantic, Senior Lecturer, Griffith University
South Australia
DSKDBI09 was very useful for me to build basic

knowledge in data mining and knowledge
discovery. When I attended this workshop I was in
first year of my PhD. It was a good opportunity for
me to analyse data mining from both industry and
academic points of view, especially in the topic
association rule mining which was closely related
to my research. It was given me strong knowledge
about my current and future research.
Ms Kalaivany Natarajan, PhD Candidate,
University of South Australia
My attendance at DSKDBI09 gave me the chance t
network with local experts in data mining and
knowledge management, which is an invaluable
experience for me as a researcher who recently
returned to Australia (I was serving as an Assistant
Professor at Ryerson University in Canada, before
returning to Australia in 2008.) Several
presentations in the colloquium, delivered by
national and internationally renowned
researchers, were highly inspirational in helping
expand my research on multimedia data mining.
The attendance of this colloquium has help me
become more engaged with the data mining
research community, which will assist in
generating more research contributions in the
future.
Dr Ivan Lee, Senior Lecturer, University of South
Australia
I found this colloquium useful as it linked the
research applications of data mining in the
academic context to its use in business. This was
particularly useful to me as I will be conducting a
course later this year on Business Intelligence and
Data Mining. My own experience to date has been
in the application of data mining in scientific areas
and this revealed to me the particular issues and
applications of data mining in business. I also
made contacts that directed me to new areas
relevant to my research interests. At a less
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Appendix N: Delegates
Interacting with Information Technologies Workshop
Workshop Presenters
Prof Christopher Lueg, University of Tasmania <cplueg@gmail.com>
Dr Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO ICT Centre Hobart <Shlomo.Berkovsky@csiro.au>
Prof Michael B Twidale, University of Illinois, Urbana‐Champaigne, USA <twidale@illinois.edu>
A/Prof Marcus Foth, Queensland University of Technology <m.foth@qut.edu.au>
Delegates
Ms Dana McKay, Swinburne University <dmckay@groupwise.swin.edu.au>
Prof Joseph Davis, The University of Sydney <j.davis@usyd.edu.au>
Dr Jo‐Anne Kelder, University of Tasmania <jokelder@gmail.com>
Dr Nilufar Baghaei CSIRO ICT Centre Hobart <Nilufar.Baghaei@csiro.au>
Mr Matt D'Orazio, University of Tasmania (Honours student) <hrmgamer@gmail.com>
Mr Tim Nugent, University of Tasmania (Honours student) <timrnugent@gmail.com>

Plus another 12 students who attended for part of the day.
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collaborating with UTAS and co‐supervising

Appendix O: Feedback students.
Interacting with Information Dr Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO ICT Centre Hobart
Technologies Workshop
I really enjoyed the workshop, and found it
The IIT workshop was especially helpful to me in inspired me to renew my research efforts (I
the following ways: 1) I finished my PhD in July work in a library in an embedded role, and so
2009 and had had the equivalent of 'empty nest' don't often have the chance to interact with
syndrome. I had been warned that post‐PhD is other people involved in HCI). I found the talks
often difficult and I experienced a sense of interesting and useful, and have forged some
dislocation and lack of vision about engaging in links to do collaborative research in the future.
research. The workshop provided me with Ms Dana McKay, User Experience Architect,
opportunity to meet active researchers, discuss University Library, Swinburne University of
their work and possibilities for my future and Technology
also stimulate me to think more creatively and
I thoroughly enjoyed my time at the workshop,
energetically about how I would engage in
probably of most interest to me and my
research from then on. 2) I prepared a
research was Michael Twidale's talk about
presentation on my doctoral research ‐ this was
mashup systems as a very good way of rapidly
an opportunity to reconnect with my research
building a working system that can have people
and think how to contribute to the body of
using it without the need for spending a huge
knowledge ‐ this presentation formed a
time in development before any user testing can
foundation for a journal article which I
begin. This is something I myself have
subsequently submitted to European Journal of
considered before but it is good to see an
Information Systems. 3) The informal morning
established academic saying the same, this will
tea, lunch and afternoon tea times were
certainly change any future prototype
supplemented by a follow‐up meeting with Prof
development I do it to make heavy use of
Mike Twidale (invited speaker) and the
mashups. Probably second to Michael Twidale's
invitation to maintain links and explore
talk on mashups was Marcus Foth's talk on the
possibilities for future interactions.
GasWorks development at Brisbane, mostly
Dr Jo‐Anne Kelder, Research Fellow, University
about his means of gauging public opinion about
of Tasmania
the development with the use of predefined
My participation in the Interacting with characters. The predefined characters idea
Information Technologies Workshop in Hobart reminded me a great deal of scenarios but had a
last year was very useful in many respects. 1) I lot more of a personal touch and would be
met Prof. Michael Twidale, UIUC, and invited something I would consider using in future
him to contribute a chapter to my co‐edited research to supplement any scenario. As with
book with MIT Press. 2) I continued discussions any conference or workshop I attend, one of the
with Prof. Christopher Lueg, and we are working most interesting components is the discussions
on an ARC Future Fellowship application as well with the other people during the tea breaks and
as considering a bid to be submitted to the before and after presentations and this one
International Science Linkages program as part certainly didn't disappoint.
of the new "AUSTRALIAN‐GERMAN BILATERAL Mr Tim Nugent, Honours Student, University of
RESEARCH AGREEMENT". 3) A local UTAS Tasmania
Honours graduate who I met at the workshop, is
It was great to hear from such giants as Michael
applying for an APAI scholarship that we are
Twidale, who inspire and are just generally
awarding soon as part of our new ARC Linkage
interesting to listen too. At the time of the
grant.
workshop I was in the final stages of my Honours
A/Prof Marcus Foth, Queensland University of
(computer science). During the conference I got
Technology
to present my initial findings to an audience that
I found the workshop very valuable. Firstly, the was familiar with my field. The feedback I
presentations of the invited speakers were very received helped me to both focus my final thesis
exciting and insightful. Secondly, the workshop and presentation, as well as providing me with
allowed me to establish research links with UTAS new research ideas.
researchers and understand their research Mr Matthew D'Orazio, Honours Student,
agenda. I am confident this will help me in my University of Tasmania
own research, particularly in the sense of

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opportunity building network with researchers in

Appendix P: Feedback different disciplines for future collaboration. I
ARC Centre of Excellence in hope such multi‐disciplinary school or conference
Bioinformatics & Institute of Molecular could be run in future again.
Bioscience's Winter School in Dr Qing Liu, Research Scientist, CSIRO ICT Centre
Mathematical and Computational In general, I enjoyed the course. I liked the first
Biology two‐day emphasis on next‐generation sequencing.
It gave me an understanding of the latest
The Winter School in Mathematical & technologies available to bioinformaticians. It
Computational Biology has been organized for didn’t directly impact on my research but made
several years and it has always been a practical me realise how much more to bioinformatics
and successful event since every year there are there is than what I am currently researching. It
many new students who join the school and was also good for networking opportunities.
benefit from the courses it provides. For example, Ms Ilana Lichtenstein, PhD Candidate, The
it was my lab mate Joshua Ho who introduced me University of Sydney
to this year’s winter school, and just as he
described, it is a unique learning opportunity to At the time of the Winter School I was working on
students who are majoring in Bioinformatics a computational biology related project. This was
related research topics. I hope this event can a new domain for me and I found my attendance
continue because it strengthens the fundamental at the Winter School gave an excellent overview
of computational biology while also exposing and scope of the research currently being
young researchers to the most up‐to‐date performed in that area. This was important as it
research themes. highlighted to me where in this field of research
Mr Pengyi Yang, PhD Candidate, The University of our project was applied and of what benefit and
Sydney opportunities our project could provide to
researchers in that area.
This is in fact the third time I attended this winter Dr James Forbes, Senior Research Engineer, CSIRO
school, yet I thoroughly enjoy each of them. I ICT Centre
benefited greatly from 2009's main topic ‐ next
generation sequencing and genome wide This winter school was organized very well.
association studies. The talks served as excellent Speakers were outstanding and spoke of diverse
introduction to these new fields to me. As a result, and cutting edge projects. As an IT student, many
I was able to write a more comprehensive of the ideas were too deep and abstract for me,
literature review in my PhD thesis, which enables but they nonetheless broadened my knowledge. I
me to put my research contribution into the enjoyed some productive discussions with
context of the current advances of the field. speakers and other students during the breaks.
Motivated by the many novel challenges in the Mr Meng Xie, PhD Candidate, The University of
bioinformatics of analysing next‐generating he Sydney
sequencing data, I subsequently decided to take
up a postdoctoral research fellowship at the

Harvard Medical to develop novel methods for

analysing these massive datasets. My experience

with the winter school has been very positive, and
I will (as I already had) strongly recommend any
students or researchers to attend the winter
school.
Mr Joshua Ho, PhD Candidate, The University of
Sydney
2009 Winter School in Mathematical and
Computational Biology" brought mathematician,
statistician, biologist and computer scientists
under one roof to discuss the state‐of‐the‐art. As a
computer scientist, I think attending this multi‐
disciplinary school is a fantastic experience. It
opened a way for me to understand the
fundamental research in computational biology
and in return, identify how computer science
research could help biologists to answer their
biological questions. The school also gave me an
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Appendix Q: Output of EII Core Members in 2009
In this Appendix we show the 2009 research output of core EII members (i.e., those who are listed as Chief
Investigators in the original EII application). This section provides clear evidence that the core EII members
form a significant portion of Australia’s capacity in ICT research.
David Abramson, Monash University
Publications
Tan, J. and Abramson, D., "Optimizing Tunneled Grid Connectivity across Firewalls". 7th Australasian Symposium
on Grid Computing and e‐Research (AUSGRID 2009), Vol. 99. W. Kelly and P. Roe, Eds, Wellington, NZ, Jan 20th –
23rd, 2009.
Ho, T and Abramson, T. “An Active Data Model”, in High Performance & Large Scale Computing, W. Gentzsch, L.
Grandinetti, G. Joubert (Editors), IOS Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Advances in Parallel Computing, 2009.
Peachey, T. C., Abramson D., and Lewis A., 2009, Parallel line search, in Optimization: Structure and Applications,
Springer Optimization and Its Applications , Vol. 32, Pearce, C.; Hunt, E.(Eds.), Chapter 20, pp 369 – 381, ISBN:
978‐0‐387‐98095‐9
Buyya, R. and Abramson, D. “The Nimrod/G Grid Resource Broker for Economic‐based Scheduling”, in Market‐
Oriented Grid and Utility Computing (Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing), Editors Rajkumar
Buyya and Kris Bubendorfer, ISBN‐13: 978‐0470287682, November 2009.
Abramson, D., Bethwaite, B., Enticott, C., Garic, S., Peachey, T., Michailova, A., Amirriazi, S., Chitters, R., "Robust
Workflows for Science and Engineering". 2nd Workshop on Many‐Task Computing on Grids and
Supercomputers(MTAGS 2009), Portland, USA, 16 November 2009
Abramson D., Bethwaite B., Enticott C., Garic S., Peachey T., "Parameter Space Exploration using Scientific
Workflows", ICCS 2009, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, May 2009
Tan, J., Abramson, D. and Enticott, C. “A Virtual Connectivity Layer for Grids”, IEEE e‐Science 2009, Dec 9 – 11th,
Oxford, UK.
Smanchat, S., Indrawan, M., Ling S., Enticott, C. and Abramson, D. "Scheduling Multiple Parameter Sweep
Workflow Instances on the Grid" IEEE e‐Science 2009, Dec 9 ‐ 11th, Oxford, UK.
Bernabeu, M. O., Corrias, A, Pitt‐Francis, J, Rodriguez, B, Bethwaite, B, Enticott, C, Garic, S, Peachey, T, Tan, J,
Abramson, D, and Gavaghan, D B. “Grid computing simulations of ion channel block effects on the ECG using 3D
anatomically‐based models”, Computers and Cardiology, Park City, Utah, September 13‐16, 2009.
Abramson, D, Bethwaite, B, Dinh, M, Enticott, C, Firth, S, Garic, S, Harper, I, Lackmann, M, Nguyen, H, Ramdas, T,
Russel, A.B.M, Schek, S and Vail, M., ”Virtual Microscopy and Analysis using Scientific Workflows”, IEEE e‐Science
2009, Dec 9 – 11th, Oxford, UK.
Schmidberger, J., Bethwaite, B., Enticott, C., Bate, M., Androulakis, S., Faux, N., Reboul, C., Phan, J., Whisstock, J.,
Garic, S., Goscinski, W., Abramson, D., and Buckle, A., 2009, "High‐throughput Protein Structure Determination
Using Grid Computing", IEEE Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology , May 25, 2009, Rome, Italy,
co‐located with IPDPS 2009.
Chan, P and Abramson, D. " Persistence and Communication State Transfer in an Asynchronous Pipe
Mechanism”, International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing, Vol. 1, Issue 3, 2009, Pages: 18‐36.
Abramson, D.A.,Chu, C.,Kurniawan, D.,Searle, A., 2009, Relative Debugging in an integrated development
environment in Software ‐ Practice and Experience, 2009:pp 1157‐1183; John Wiley&Sons Ltd.
Ramdas, T., Egan, G. K., Abramson, D. A., & Baldridge, K. K. (2009), ‘ERI Sorting for Emerging Processor
Architectures’, Computer Physics Communications, Elsevier, 2009
Grants
A Unified Grid Programming Methodology for Global e‐Science, RC Discovery 2007 ‐ 2011
A High throughput Grid based environment for real time bio‐medical imaging, ARC Linkage2008 ‐ 2010
A scalable debugging framework for petascale computers, ARC Linkage2008 ‐ 2010
A scalable development environment for petascale computers, US Department of Energy 2009 ‐ 2011
Application of Scientific Workflows to Ecosystems Modelling ‐ The work is a collaborative project with the
Victorian Department of Primary Industries and the Victorian e‐Research Strategic Initiative (VeRSI)VeRSI2009
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Boualem Benatallah, The University of New South Wales
Publications
Quang‐Khai Pham, Guillaume Raschia, Noureddine Mouaddib, Régis Saint‐Paul, Boualem Benatallah: Time
sequence summarization to scale up chronology‐dependent applications. CIKM 2009: 1137‐1146
Dat Dac Hoang, Boualem Benatallah, Hye‐Young Paik: Towards a Spreadsheet‐Based Service Composition
Framework. DASFAA Workshops 2009: 369‐373
Florian Daniel, Fabio Casati, Boualem Benatallah, Ming‐Chien Shan: Hosted Universal Composition: Models,
Languages and Infrastructure in mashArt. ER 2009: 428‐443
Van Hai Ho, Paul Compton, Boualem Benatallah, Julien Vayssière, Lucio Menzel, Hartmut Vogler: An Incremental
Knowledge Acquisition Method for Improving Duplicate Invoices Detection. ICDE 2009: 1415‐1418
Woralak Kongdenfha, Boualem Benatallah, Julien Vayssière, Régis Saint‐Paul, Fabio Casati: Rapid development
of spreadsheet‐based web mashups. WWW 2009: 851‐860
Halvard Skogsrud, Hamid R. Motahari Nezhad, Boualem Benatallah, Fabio Casati: Modeling Trust Negotiation for
Web Services. IEEE Computer 42(2): 54‐61 (2009)
Quan Z. Sheng, Boualem Benatallah, Zakaria Maamar, Anne H. H. Ngu: Configurable Composition and Adaptive
Provisioning of Web Services. IEEE T. Services Computing 2(1): 34‐49 (2009)
Woralak Kongdenfha, Hamid R. Motahari Nezhad, Boualem Benatallah, Fabio Casati, Régis Saint‐Paul: Mismatch
Patterns and Adaptation Aspects: A Foundation for Rapid Development of Web Service Adapters. IEEE T.
Services Computing 2(2): 94‐107 (2009)
Giusy Di Lorenzo, Hakim Hacid, Hye‐Young Paik, Boualem Benatallah: Data integration in mashups. SIGMOD
Record 38(1): 59‐66 (2009)
Boualem Benatallah, Fabio Casati, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Claude Godart: WISE 2007 Extended Best Papers.
World Wide Web 12(1): 1‐2 (2009)
Major Professional Activities
Steering Committee Member
Int. conf on Business Process Management
IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing, Workflow Management in Scalable Computing Environments
Technical Area
Editorial Boards
Service Computing and Applications Journal (SOCA, Springer)
Peer‐to‐Peer Networking and Applications Journal (Springer)
Int. Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM)
Int. Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering
Peter Bruza, Queensland University of Technology
Publications
Novakovich, D., Bruza, P.D., and Sitbon, L. (2009) Inducing Shades of Meaning by Matrix Methods : A First Step
towards Thematic Analysis of Opinion. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Advances in
Semantic Processing (SEMAPRO'09), pp. 89‐91, IEEE Press.
Bruza, P. D., Kitto, K., Nelson, D. and McEvoy, C.L. (2009) Is there something quantum‐like about the human
mental lexicon? Journal of Mathematical Psychology, vol. 53, pp. 362‐377.
Bruza, P. D., Barros, A., and Kaiser, M. (2009) Augmenting web service discovery by cognitive semantics and
abduction. Proceedings 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent
Agent Technology, pp. 403‐410, IEEE Press.
Hoenkamp, E., Bruza, P.D., Song, D., and Huang, Q. (2009) An effective approach to verbose queries using a
limited dependencies language model. In Azzopardi L., Kazai, G., Robertson, S., Rueger, S., Shokouhi, M., Song,
D., Yilmaz, E. (Eds.) Advances in Information Retrieval Theory, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5766, pp.
116‐127, Sringer.
Bruza, P.D. (2009) "Is there something quantum‐like about the human mental lexicon", Keynote presentation at
the Second International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR'09), September 10,
Cambridge University.
Bruza, P. D., Sofge, D., Lawless, W., Rijsbergen, C.J. van, Klusch, M. (eds.) Proceedings of the Third Quantum
Interaction Symposium. Saarbruecken, March 25‐27, 2009. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 5494,
Springer.
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Bruza, P. D., Kitto, K., Nelson, D. and McEvoy, C.L. (2009) Extracting Spooky‐Activation‐at‐a‐Distance from
Considerations of Entlanglement. Proceedings of the Third Quantum Interaction Symposium, LNAI vol. 5494, pp.
71‐83, Springer.
Kitto, K., Bruza, P. D., and Sitbon, L. (2009) Generalising Unitary Time Evolution. Proceedings of the Third
Quantum Interaction Symposium, LNAI vol. 5494, pp. 17‐28, Springer.
Flender, C., Kitto, K. and Bruza, P. D. (2009) Nonseparability of Shared Intentionality. Proceedings of the Third
Flender, C., Kitto, K. and Bruza, P. D. (2009) Beyond Ontology in Information Systems. Proceedings of the Third
Bruza, P.D., Widdows, D. and Woods, J. (2009) A Quantum Logic of Down Below. In K. Engesser, D. Gabbay and D.
Lehmann (eds) Handbook of Quantum Logic and Quantum Structures. Volume 2. Elsevier.
Grants
The QM of Semantic Space Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (DP077334)
Generalised quantum models of complexity with application to cognitive systems Australian Research Council
Discovery Grant (DP1094974)
Web service discovery Australian Research Council Linkage grant (LP0669924)
Semantic Profiles partially funded by National ICT Australia (Limited) as part of the SPIN Project
Editorial board memberships: Journal of Algorithms in Cognition, Informatics and Logic, Information Retrieval
Journal, Information and Knowledge Management Series, Journal of Applied Logic
Jennie Carroll, RMIT University
Publications
Carroll, J. (2009). ‘Reconciling the tensions between innovation and the process focus in Information Systems
project management’, Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2009),
AAIS, 841‐850.
Fidock, J. and Carroll, J. (2009). ‘Combining variance and process research approaches to understand system
use’, Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2009), AAIS, 235‐245.
Winner Best Theoretical Paper, ACIS 2009.
Barrow, R., Carroll, J. and Smith, R. (2009). ‘Towards an integrated model of ISDM tailoring’, Proceedings of the
20th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2009), AAIS, 121‐131.
Keller, S. and Carroll, J. (2009). ‘The social role of design representation’, Proceedings of the 20th Australasian
Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2009), AAIS, 973‐982.
Grants
DSTO 2009‐2010, Examining the Process of Appropriation for Field Vehicles, $30,000
Joseph Davis, The University of Sydney
Publications
G. Pandey, S. Chawla, S. Poon, and J. Davis, Association Rules Network: Definition and Applications, Statistical
Analysis and Data Mining, Vol 1, 2009, pp. 260‐279.
S. Poon, J. Davis, and B. Choi, Augmenting Productivity Analysis with Data Mining: An Application on IT Business
Value, Expert Systems with Applications, Vol 36, 2009, pp. 2213‐2224.
J. Davis and S. Ganeshan, Aversion to Loss and Information Overload, Proceedings of the International
Conference on Information Systems (ICIS2009), Phoenix, December 2009.
H. Lin and J. Davis, Integrating Computational and Crowd‐Sourcing Approaches for Ontology Extraction, to be
presented at the Services, Knowledge, and Grid (SKG) Conference, October 12‐14, 2009, Zhuhai, China.
(Proceedings in IEEE digital Library).
J. Davis and W. Wong, Effective Knowledge Sharing in Service Systems, IEEE International Conference on
Services Computing (SCC200), Bangalore, September 20‐ 25, 2009.
H. Lin and J. Davis, An Integrated Approach to Extracting Ontological Structures from Folksonomies, Proceedings
of the European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2009), Heraklion, Greece, 31 May‐ 4 June 2009.
Grants
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J. Davis et al., Curriculum renewal in postgraduate information technology education: a response to growing
service sector dominance" Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Grant, July 2008‐July 2010 $218,500.
Collaborators: The University of New South Wales, The University of Queensland, and The University of
Melbourne.
J. Davis and S. Gregor, Understanding and Extracting Value from Information Technology Investments, Taskforce
grant, ARC Research Network on Enterprise Information Infrastructure, $45,200, March 2008‐June 2009.
Member, Program Committee, IEEE Conference on Service Computing (SCC‐ 2009/2010).
John Debenham, University of Technology, Sydney
Publications
John K. Debenham: An Argumentation Agent Models Evaluative Criteria. AIAI 2009: 81‐86
Ting Yu, Manfred Lenzen, Blanca Gallego, John K. Debenham: A Data Mining System for Estimating a Largesize
Matrix for the Environmental Accounting. AIAI Workshops 2009: 260‐269
John K. Debenham, Ante Prodan: A Multiagent System for Self‐organisation of an 802.11 Mesh Network.
HoloMAS 2009: 244‐253
John K. Debenham, Carles Sierra: An Agent Supports Constructivist and Ecological Rationality. IAT 2009: 255‐258
John K. Debenham, Carles Sierra: Dual Rationality and Deliberative Agents. SGAI Conf. 2009: 79‐92
John K. Debenham, Simeon J. Simoff: Believable Electronic Trading Environments on the Web. Web Intelligence
2009: 631‐638
Frank Dehne, Carleton University, Canada
Publications
G.Clermont, C.Auffray, Y.Moreau, D.M.Rocke, D.Dalevi, D.Dubhashi, D.Marshall, P.Raasch, F.Dehne, P.Provero, J.Tegner,
B.J.Aronow, M.A.Langston, and M.Benson, "Bridging the gap between systems biology and medicine," Genome Medicine,
vol.1, no.9, p.88 ff., 2009. PubMed
F.Dehne, T.Eavis, and A.Rau‐Chaplin, "Rcube: Parallel multi‐dimensional rolap indexing," Refereed survey article, Strategic
Advancements in Utilizing Data Mining and Warehousing Technologies: New Concepts and Developments, IGI Global,
2009.
F.Dehne, M.Lawrence, and A.Rau‐Chaplin, "Cooperative caching for grid‐enabled OLAP," Int. Journal of Grid and Utility

Computing, vol.1, no.2, pp.169‐181, 2009.
F.Dehne, G.Hickey, A.Rau‐Chaplin, and M.Byrne, "Parallel catastrophe modelling on a cell processor," in Proc.
CASCON, ACM Dig. Library, to appear (2009).
Grants
2009: NSERC Discovery Grant ‐ "Coarse grained parallel algorithms", Investigator: F. Dehne, $43,000.
2009: MITACS Networking and Technical Training Grant ‐ “Second Annual Cell BE Programming Workshop ‐ The
Cell BE in Biomedical Informatics”, Investigator: F. Dehne, M. Dumontier, J. Green*, G. Wainer, $10,000.
Editorial Board Member
IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Computer Society, USA, 2004 ‐ 2009.
Int. Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications Inderscience Publishers, Geneva, Switzerland, 2004 –
present.
Int. Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining, IGI Publishers, Hershey, USA, 2004 – present.
2003‐present: Member, IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing
2000‐present: Principal Co‐Investigator, High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory (HPCVL).
2000‐present: Member of the EURO‐PAR Advisory Board
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Alan Fekete, The University of Sydney
Publications
Unbundling Transaction Services in the Cloud, D. Lomet, A. Fekete, G. Weikum, M. Zwilling, Perspectives of
Conference on Innovative Database Research (CIDR'09), Asilomar California USA, January 2009.
A Robust Technique to Ensure Serializable Executions with Snapshot Isolation DBMS, M. Alomari, A. Fekete, and
U. Roehm, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'09) Shanghai, China, April
2009, pp 341‐352.
Quantifying Isolation Anomalies, A. Fekete, S. Goldrei and J. Perez Asenjo, Proceedings of International
Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'09), Lyons, France, August 2009, pp 467‐478.
Implementing Isolation for Service‐based Applications, W. Chen, A. Fekete, P. Greenfield and J. Jang
Proceedings of International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS'09), (Short Paper),
Vilamoura, Portugal, November 2009, (published as Springer LNCS5870) pp 365‐372.
Member, Academic Board, The University of Sydney
Member, Academic Standards and Policy Committee, Academic Board, The University of Sydney
Secretary/Treasurer, Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia.
Peter Green, The University of Queensland
Publications
Muliawan, A. D., Green, P. F. and Robb, D. A. (2009) The turnover intentions of information systems auditors.
International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, 10 3: 117‐136.
Recker, Jan, Rosemann, Michael, Indulska, Marta and Green, Peter (2009) Business process modeling ‐ a
comparative analysis. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 10 4: 333‐363.
Gao, S., Xu, D., Wang, H. and Green, P. (2009) Knowledge‐based anti‐money laundering: a software agent bank
application. Journal of Knowledge Management, 13 2: 63‐75.
Abou Moghdeb, F., Green, Peter F. and Indulska, Marta K. (2009). Achieving higher levels of business process
improvement: A case study. In: , PACIS 2009 Proceedings. 13th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems
(PACIS), Hyderabad, India, (1‐12). 10‐12 July, 2009.
Ali, S. and Green, P. (2009) Effective information technology (IT) governance mechanisms: An IT outsourcing
perspective. Information Systems Frontiers.
Prasad, A., Heales, J. and Green, P. F. (2009). Information technology resources, complementarities and
capabilities: Towards a deeper understanding of leveraging business value from IT. In: , AMCIS 2009 Proceedings.
15th Americas Conference on Information Systems AMCIS 2009, San Francisco, California, (). 6‐9 August, 2009.
Grants
2008 ‐ 2011 InformationTechnology (IT) Audit Methodologies in the Australian Public Sector: Addressing
Mandatory Requirements of International Standards
Researchers: Green, P. F Ridley, G. J. Ferguson, C. Coram, P. J.
Funding Bodies: Australian Research Council, University Of Queensland
Total Funding: $ 105,572
2008 ‐ 2009 Improving Business Processes: A Pattern‐Oriented Approach
Researchers: Green, P. F.
Funding Bodies: University Of Queensland
Total Funding: $ 25,000
Igor Hawryszkiewycz:, University of Technology, Sydney
Publications
Hawryszkiewycz, I.T. "Knowledge Magement: Organizing Knowledge Based Enterprises" Palgrave Macmilla,
Basingstke, UK.
Hawryszkiewycz, I.T. (2009): “Designing Collaborative Infrastructures to get Business Value from Collaboration in
Large Scale Networks” in Pankowska, M. (ed.) Informanomics for Distributed Decision‐Making Environments:
Creating Information Systems Ecology. Business Science Reference, Hershey, New York.
Hawryszkiewycz, I.T. (2009): “Modeling Complex Adaptive Systems”, UNISCON, Sydney, 21‐24 April, 2009,
Springer, ThirdUnited Information Systems International Conference, Sydney, Australia, April 21‐24. pp. 458‐468.
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Hawryszkiewycz, I.T. (2009): “Workspace Requirements for Complex Adaprive Systems”, Proceedings of the
2009 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems, CTS2009, Maryland, May 18‐22, pp.
342‐347.
Hawryszkiewycz, I.T. (2009): “Identifying and Supporting Collaborative Architectures”, Third International
Conference, KSEM 2009, Vienna, Austria, pp. 442‐449.
Hawryszkiewycz, I.T. (2009): “Designing Collaborative Infrastructures for Business Applications”,
Proceedings .IADIS International Congerence on WWW/Internet, Rome, Italy, Sept. 19‐22, pp. 93‐95.
Seokhee Hong, The University of Sydney
Publications
David Cho Yau Fung, Seok‐Hee Hong, Dirk Koschützki, Falk Schreiber, Kai Xu, “Visual Analysis of Overlapping
Biological Networks”, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV 2009),
pp. 337‐342, IEEE, 2009.
Kai Xu, Rohan Williams, Seok‐Hee Hong, Qing Liu, and Ji Zhang, "Semi‐Bipartite Graph Visualization for Gene
Ontology Networks", Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD'09), LNCS,
Springer, to appear.
Seok‐Hee Hong and Hiroshi Nagamochi, “Upward Star‐Shaped Polyhedral Graphs”, Proceedings of the 20th
International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2009), pp. 913‐922, LNCS, Springer, 2009.
Seok‐Hee Hong and Hiroshi Nagamochi, “New Approximation to the One‐sided Radial Crossing Minimization,
Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications (JGAA), 13(2), pp. 179‐196, 2009.
Seok‐Hee Hong and Hiroshi Nagamochi, “Convex drawings of hierarchical planar graphs and clustered planar
graphs, Journal of Discrete Algorithms, to appear.
Seok‐Hee Hong and Hiroshi Nagamochi, “An algorithm for constructing star‐shaped drawings of plane graphs,
Computational Geometry Theory and Applications, to appear.
K. Haraguchi, S.‐H. Hong, H. Nagamochi, “Bipartite graph representation of multiple decision table classifiers”,
Proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Stochastic Algorithms, Foundations and Applications (SAGA 2009),
Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 5792, pp. 46‐60, 2009.
K. Haraguchi, S.‐H. Hong, H. Nagamochi, “Visualization can improve multiple decision table classifiers”,
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence (MDAI 2009),
IEEE, pp. 41‐52, 2009.
Jesse Jin, The University of Newcastle
Publications
Luo Suhuai, Jin Jesse Sheng, Li Jiaming, ’A smart fridge with an ability to enhance health and enable better
nutrition’, International Journal of Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering, 4 69‐79 (2009)
Qian Guoyu, Luo Suhuai, Jin Jesse Sheng, Park Mira, Nowinski Wieslaw L, ’Automated and domain knowledge‐
based brain extraction from CT head scans’, International Journal of Computer Aided Engineering and
Technology, 1 480‐493 (2009)
Park Mira, Jin Jesse Sheng, Au Sherlock L, Luo Suhuai, Cui Yue, ’Automated defect inspection systems by pattern
recognition’, International Journal of Signal Processing, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, 2 31‐41
(2009)
Park Mira, Jin Jesse Sheng, Hofstetter R, Xu Min, Kang B H, ’Automatic colonic polyp detection by the mapping
using regional unit sphere’, International Journal of Software Engineering and Its Applications, 3 11‐18 (2009)
Park Mira, Kang B, Jin Jesse Sheng, Luo Suhuai, ’Computer aided diagnosis system of medical images using
incremental learning method’, Expert Systems with Applications, 36 7242‐7251 (2009)
Qian Guoyu, Luo Suhuai, Jin Jesse Sheng, Park Mira, Li Jiaming, Nowinski Wieslaw L, ’A fast and automatic
approach to extract the brain and midsagittal lines from FDG‐PET head scans’, ICISE: The 1st International
Conference on Information Science and Engineering, Nanjing, China (2009)
Luo Suhuai, Jin Jesse Sheng, Chalup Stephan Konrad, Qian Guoyu, ’A liver segmentation algorithm based on
wavelets and machine learning’, Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Computational
Intelligence and Natural Computing, CINC 2009, Wuhan, China (2009)
Luo Suhuai, Hu Qingmao, He Xiangjian, Li Jiaming, Jin Jesse Sheng, Park Mira, ’Automatic liver parenchyma
segmentation from abdominal CT images using support vector machines’, The 2009 ICME International
Conference on Complex Medical Engineering (CME 2009), Tempe, AZ (2009)
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Summons Peter Frederick, Newby David Andrew, Athauda Rukshan Indika, Park Mira, Shaw Peter Edward,
Pranata Ilung, Jin Jesse Sheng, Xu Y D, ’Design strategy for a scalable virtual pharmacy patient’, ACIS 2009:
Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Melbourne, VIC (2009)
Grants
Jesse Jin 2008‐09 Australian Research Council Linkage Project Streaming video information using semantic
information
Jesse Jin; Janet Aisbett; Mira Park 2007‐10 Australian Research Council Linkage Projects Intelligent archiving and
retrieving of clinic laboratory records in pathology/radiology informatics study
Jesse Jin; Janet Aisbett; Mira Park 2007‐09 IntelliRAD Solutions Pty Ltd Linkage Projects Partner funding
Intelligent archiving and retrieving of clinic laboratory records in pathology/radiology informatics study
Audun Jøsang, UNIK ‐ Universitetsenteret på Kjeller
Publications
Audun Jøsang and Jennifer Golbeck. Challenges for Robust of Trust and Reputation Systems. Proceedings of the
5th International Workshop on Security and Trust Management (STM 2009). Saint Malo, France, September
2009.
Md. Sadek Ferdous, Audun Jøsang, Kuldeep Singh, Ravishankar Borgaonkar. Security Usability of Petname
Systems. Proceedings of the 14th Nordic Workshop on Secure IT systems (NordSec 2009) Oslo, Norway, October
2009.
Anne Ruste Flø and Audun Jøsang. Consequences of Botnets Spreading to Mobile Devices. Short‐Paper
Proceedings of the 14th Nordic Conference on Secure IT Systems (NordSec 2009). Oslo, October 2009
Kuldeep Singh, Audun Jøsang and Md. Sadek Ferdous. Spam Filter Optimality Based on Signal Detection Theory.
In the Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (SIN 2009).
Cyprus, October 2009.
Bandar Alhaqbani, Audun Jøsang, and Colin Fidge. A Medical Data Reliability Assessment Model. Journal of
Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, 4(2), August 2009, pp.64‐78.
Audun Jøsang and Walter Quattrociocchi. Advanced Features in Bayesian Reputation Systems (to appear).
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Trust, Privacy & Security in Digital Business (TrustBus'09),
Linz, Austria, August‐September, 2009.
Audun Jøsang. Fission of Opinions in Subjective Logic. In the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on
Information Fusion (FUSION 2009), Seattle, July 2009.
Suriadi Suriadi, Ernest Foo and Audun Jøsang. A User‐Centric Federated Single Sign‐on System. Journal of
Network and Computer Applications. 32(2), 2009, pp.388‐401.
Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne
Publications
Mingzhong Wang, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, Jinjun Chen: Reasoning intra‐dependency in commitments for
robust scheduling. AAMAS (2) 2009: 953‐960
Dana Zhang, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, Steven Versteeg, Rui Zhang: RoleVAT: Visual Assessment of Practical
Need for Role Based Access Control. ACSAC 2009: 13‐22
Lee Naish, Hua Jie Lee, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao: Spectral Debugging with Weights and Incremental Ranking.
APSEC 2009: 168‐175
Uyen T. V. Nguyen, Laurence A. F. Park, Liang Wang, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao: A Novel Path‐Based Clustering
Algorithm Using Multi‐dimensional Scaling. Australasian Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2009: 280‐290
Laurence A. F. Park, Christopher Leckie, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, James C. Bezdek: Adapting Spectral Co‐
clustering to Documents and Terms Using Latent Semantic Analysis. Australasian Conference on Artificial
Intelligence 2009: 301‐311
Laurence A. F. Park, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao: Kernel latent semantic analysis using an information retrieval
based kernel. CIKM 2009: 1721‐1724
Laurence A. F. Park, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao: The Sensitivity of Latent Dirichlet Allocation for Information
Retrieval. ECML/PKDD (2) 2009: 176‐188
Ziyuan Wang, Lars Kulik, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao: Robust traffic merging strategies for sensor‐enabled cars
using time geography. GIS 2009: 362‐371
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Elankovan Sundararajan, Aaron Harwood, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, Anton Satria Prabuwono: Event Based
Simulator for Parallel Computing over the Wide Area Network for Real Time Visualization. IVIC 2009: 573‐584
Liang Wang, Christopher Leckie, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, James C. Bezdek: Approximate Spectral Clustering.
PAKDD 2009: 134‐146
Yong Zhen Guo, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, Laurence A. F. Park: Grouped ECOC Conditional Random Fields for
Prediction of Web User Behavior. PAKDD 2009: 757‐763
Shaoyi Zhang, M. Maruf Hossain, Md. Rafiul Hassan, James Bailey, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao: Feature Weighted
SVMs Using Receiver Operating Characteristics. SDM 2009: 497‐508
Yong Zhen Guo, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, Laurence A. F. Park: Web Access Latency Reduction Using CRF‐Based
Predictive Caching. WISM 2009: 31‐44
Laurence A. F. Park, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao: An analysis of latent semantic term self‐correlation. ACM Trans.
Inf. Syst. 27(2): (2009)
Md. Rafiul Hassan, M. Maruf Hossain, James Bailey, Geoff Macintyre, Joshua Wing Kei Ho, Kotagiri
Ramamohanarao: A voting approach to identify a small number of highly predictive genes using multiple
classifiers. BMC Bioinformatics 10(S‐1): (2009)
Ziyuan Wang, Lars Kulik, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao: Decentralized Traffic Management Strategies for Sensor‐
Enabled Cars CoRR abs/0906.3424: (2009)
Liang Wang, Christopher Leckie, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, James C. Bezdek: Automatically Determining the
Number of Clusters in Unlabeled Data Sets. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 21(3): 335‐350 (2009)
Laurence A. F. Park, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao: Efficient storage and retrieval of probabilistic latent semantic
information for information retrieval. VLDB J. 18(1): 141‐155 (2009)
Amy Unruh, James Bailey, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao: Building more robust multi‐agent systems using a log‐
based approach. Web Intelligence and Agent Systems 7(1): 65‐87 (2009)
Grants
High‐speed, three‐dimensional, x‐ray fluoroscopy for accurate measurement of human joint motion AUST
RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) LE0989384 $233,000
Patient‐specific computational tools for evaluating functional performance of total knee replacements in vivo
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Projects LP0990369 $400,000 (ARC) + $150000 (Industry)
Carrier‐scale defence against distributed denial‐of‐service attacks AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Projects
LP100100854 $212,000 (ARC) +$90000 (industry)
BIGNET – A Distributed Wireless Sensor Network Testbed AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Infrastructure
(Equipment and Facilities) LE0883073 $597,476.00
EPOS: Efficient Processing of Moving Object Streams Successful AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects
DP0880215 $590,000.00
SeqSeeker: a search engine for large numbers of very long sequences AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery
Projects DP0880250 $234,000.00
Australian Computing Research and Education (CORE) Society Distinguished Contribution Award 2009
Bjorn Landfeldt, The University of Sydney
Publications
“Towards the Formation of Comprehensive SLAs between Heterogeneous Wireless DiffServ Domains”, M.
Iftikhar, B. Landfeldt and M. Caglar, Springer Telecommunication Systems special issue on Wireless networks
Modeling, vol. 42, issue 3‐4, December 2009.
"Prolonging the System Lifetime and Equalizing the Energy for Heterogeneous Sensor Networks Using RETT
Protocol", K. Matrouk and B. Landfeldt, International Journal of Sensor Networks, In Press.
"RETT‐gen; A Globally Efficient Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networksby Equalising Sensor Energy and
Aviding Energy Holes", K. Matrouk and B. Landfeldt, Elsevier Journal on Ad Hoc Networks, In Press.
“Weighted Channel Allocation and Power Control for Self‐Configurable Infrastructure WLANs , S. Manitpornsut
and B. Landfeldt, Journal of Interconnect Networks, in Press.
"Detection and Identification of Anomalies in Wireless Mesh Networks using Principal Component Analysis", Z.
Zaidi, S. Hakami, B. Landfeldt and T. Mooors, Journal of Interconnection Networks, In Press.
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“Efficient Channel Assignment Algorithms for Infrastructure WLANs Under Dense Deployment”, S.
Manitpornsut, B. Landfeldt and A. Boukerche, ACM MSWIM, Tenerife Spain, October 2009.
"Performance Evaluation of Opportunistic temporal‐Pairing Access Network (OPAN)", L Wu, R, Hsieh and B.
Landfeldt, Chinacom 2009, Xi’An, China, Aug. 26‐28 2009.
Press coverage
“On the delayed outcomes of the Internet filtering trials”Live Interview, the Leon Delaney Show, Radio 2SM and
the Super Network (NSW and Queensland), 3/9‐2009
“China says Web access cut off due to riots”, the Inquirer July 7, 2009,
http://services.inquirer.net/print/print.php?article_id=20090707‐214343
“Internet body considers domain name expansion”, ABC Radio News, World today, June 24 12.50 pm, Radio
interview and article http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/24/2607581.htm
“Seoul: Tech Capital of the World”, The Seoul Times, April 25 2009,
http://theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=/ST/db/read.php?idx=5439
“ABC Triple J Radio, hack, March 19, 2009, Radio interview comments on consequences of the leaked ACMA
blacklist.
“Leaked Australian Blacklist Reveals Banned Sites”, The Sydney Morning Herald, March 19 2009, Also The
Melbourne Age, the Brisbane Times, the Canberra Times and WA Today.
Editorial boards
Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications (JPCC) Trobadour Publishing (Associated Editor 2004‐).
Journal of Computers (JCP, ISSN 1796‐203X), Academy Publisher (Associated Editor 2006‐)
Program Committee Chair
IEEE ICCCN Symposium on Network Architectures and Protocols (Co‐Chaired with Joe Touch) San Francisco, USA
2009
ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access, MobiWac, Teneriffe, Canary
Islands, 2009
Weifa Liang, The Australian National University
Publications
W. Liang, R. Brent, Y. Xu, and Q. Wang. Minimum‐energy all‐to‐all multicasting in wireless ad hoc networks.
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol.8, no. 11, pp 5490‐5499, Nov., 2009.
Y. Liu and W. Liang. Online multicasting in WDM network with shared splitter bank.
Photonic Network Communications, Vol.17, pp.1‐‐9, Springer, 2009.
O. Jerew and W. Liang Prolonging network lifetime through the use of mobile base station in wireless sensor
networks.
Proc. 7th Intl Conf. on Advances of Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM), ACM Press, Dec., 2009. ( the
best paper award)
B. Chen, W. Liang, and J. X. Yu. Progressive skyline query evaluation and maintenance in sensor networks.
Proc. 18th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Hong Kong, ACM Press, short paper,
pp.1445‐‐1448, 2009.
B. Chen and W. Liang Progressive skyline query processing in wireless sensor networks.
Proc. 5th Int'l Conf. on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 17‐‐24, 2009.
Xuemin Lin, The University of New South Wales
Publications
Athman Bouguettaya, Xuemin Lin: Database Technologies 2009, Twentieth Australasian Database Conference
(ADC 2009), Wellington, New Zealand, 20‐23 January, 2009, Proceedings Australian Computer Society 2009
Muhammad Aamir Cheema, XUEMIN LIN, Ying Zhang, Wei Wang, Wenjie Zhang, Lazy Updates: An Efficient
Technique to Continuously Monitoring Reverse kNN, (to appear in VLDB 2009).
W. Wang, C. Xiao, X. LIN, C. Zhang, Efficient Approximate Entity Extraction with Edit Distance Constraints, pages
759‐770, SIGMOD 09.
Y. Chen, W. Wang, Z. Liu, X. LIN, Keyword Search on Structured and Semi‐structured Data, pages 1005‐1010.
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M. Hua, J. Pei, A. Fu, X.LIN, H.F. Leung, Top‐k Typicality Queries and Efficient Query Answering Methods on Large
Databases, 18(3), pages 759‐770, VLDB Journal 2009.
W. Zhang, X. LIN, Y. Zhang, W. Wang, J.X. Yu , Probilistic Skyline Operator over Sliding Windows, in the
Proceedings of 25th IEEE Intational Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE09), pages 1060‐1071, Shanghai, China.
C. Xiao, W. Wang, X. LIN, H. Shang, Top‐k Set Similarity Joins, in the Proceedings of 25th IEEE Intational
Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE09), pages 916‐927, Shanghai, China.
Y. Tao, Ling Ding, X. LIN, J. Pei, Distance‐based Representative Skyline, in the Proceedings of 25th IEEE Intational
Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE09), pages 892‐903, Shanghai, China.
Y. Zhang, X. LIN, Y. Tao, W. Zhang, Uncertain Location based Range Aggregates in a multi‐dimensional space
(short paper), in the Proceedings of 25th IEEE Intational Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE09), pages 1247‐
1250, Shanghai, China.
M. Hasan, M. A. Cheema, X. LIN, Y. Zhang Efficient Construction of Safe Regions for moving kNN Queries over
Dynamic Datasets, (short paper) in the 11th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD),
Aalborg, Denmark, 2009.
S. Yang, W. Zhang, Y. Zhang, X. Lin, Probabilistic Threshold Range Aggregate Query Processing over Uncertain
Data, pages 51‐62, APWebWAIM 2009 ( Best Paper Award )
Grants
2009 UNSW Major Research Equipment & Infrastructure Scheme Grant, Equiping the Database Research Group
with State of the Art Computing Facilities , $123,000, (Xuemin Lin and Wei Wang)
2009‐2011,Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (DP0987557): Analyzing Uncertain Data: Probabilistic
Approaches, $342,000,(Xuemin Lin and Xiaofang Zhou).
Google Research Award, Taming Uncertainity of Distributed Data , US$50,000 (Xuemin Lin and Sanjay Jha).
2008‐2010, Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (DP0881035): Effectively Computing and Maintaining
Graph based Statistics in Large Scale Applications , $250,000
Editorships
Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Database Systems .
Editor of Journal of Computing Science and Engineering .
Conference Chairs
Conference co‐chair of DASFAA 09
Conference Chair of the 1st Workshop on Management and mining Of UNcertain Data MOUND 2009 (in
conjunction with ICDE 2009)
Steering Committee Chair of APWeb (2009‐)
Chengfei Liu, Swinburne University
Publications
L. Li, C. Liu, X. Zhao, and J. Wang, Transactional Properties for Complex Web Services, Service Intelligence and
Service Science: Evolutionary Technologies and Challenges, IGI Group, 2009.
X. Zhao and C. Liu, Steering Dynamic Collaborations between Business Processes, to appear in IEEE Transactions
on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (TSMC) ‐ part A, 2009
C. Yang, C. Liu, J. Li, J. Yu and J. Wang, A Query System for XML DATA Stream and Its Semantics‐Based Buffer
Reduction, to appear in Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology (JRPIT), 2009.
th
J. Wang, J. Yu, C. Pang and C. Liu, Minimal Common Container of Tree Patterns, Proceedings of the 18 ACM
Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2009), pp. 1409‐1412, November 2009, Hong
Kong, China.
X. Zhao, C. Liu and T. Lin, Enhancing Business Process Automation by Integrating RFID Data and Events,
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2009), pp. 255‐272,
November 1‐6, 2009, Vilamoura, Portugal. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5870 Springer.
th
J. Xu, C. Liu and X. Zhao, Resource Planning for Massive Number of Process Instances, Proceedings of the 17
International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2009), pp. 219‐236. November 1‐6, 2009,
Vilamoura, Portugal. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5870 Springer.
X. Zhao, C. Liu, Y. Yang and W. Sadiq, Aligning Collaborative Business Processes ‐ An Organisation‐oriented
Perspective, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (TSMC) ‐ part A, 39(6):1152‐1164, 2009.
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H. Huang and C. Liu, Query Evaluation on Probabilistic RDF Databases, Proceedings of the 10 International
Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2009), pp. 307‐320, October 5‐7, 2009, Poznan,
Poland. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5802 Springer.
X. Zhao and C. Liu, Towards Dynamic Collaborations in Virtual Organisation Alliances, Handbook of Research on
Complex Dynamic Process Management, IGI Group, 2009.
C. Liu, Q. Li and X. Zhao, Challenges and Opportunities in Collaborative Business Process Management,
Information System Frontiers, 11(3): 201‐209, July 2009.
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R. Zhou, C. Liu and J. Wang, Containment between Unions of XPath Queries, Proceedings of the 14
International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2009), pp. 405‐420, April
2009, Brisbane, Australia. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5463 Springer.
X. Zhao, C. Liu, W. Sadiq, M. Kowalkiewicz and S. Yongchareon, WS‐BPEL Business Process Abstraction and
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Concretisation, Proceedings of the 14 International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications
(DASFAA 2009), pp. 555‐569, April 2009, Brisbane, Australia. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5463
Springer.
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Z. Tan, C. Liu , W. Wang and B. Shi, Consistent Answers from Integrated XML Data, Proceedings of the 14
International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2009), pp. 436‐440, April
2009, Brisbane, Australia. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5463 Springer.
B. Ning, C. Liu and G. Wang, C‐Tree Indexing for Holistic Twig Joins, Proceedings of the Joint International
Conferences on Asia‐Pacific Web Conference and Web‐Age Information Management (APWeb‐WAIM 2009), pp.
76‐87, April 2009, Suzhou, China. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5446 Springer.
J. Li, C. Liu, R. Zhou and B. Ning, Processing XML Keyword Search by Constructing Effective Structured Queries, to
appear in Proceedings of the Joint International Conferences on Asia‐Pacific Web Conference and Web‐Age
Information Management (APWeb‐WAIM 2009), pp. 88‐99, April 2009, Suzhou, China. Lecture Notes in
Computer Science, Vol. 5446 Springer.
J. Wang, J. Yu and C. Liu, Independence of containing patterns property and its applications in tree pattern query
rewriting using views, World Wide Web Journal (WWWJ), 12 (1 ): 87‐105, Mar 2009.
Grants
LP0990393 Australian Research Council Linkage Grant
Novel cloud computing based workflow technology for managing large numbers of process instances
$380 K for July 2009‐June 2012
Investigators: Prof. Y. Yang (Swinburne), Prof. R. Kotagiri (Melbourne U), Prof. C. Liu (Swinburne), Dr. J. Chen
(Swinburne), Dr. H. Wang (Shandong Dareway)
DP0878405 Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (formally Large ARC)
XML Views of Relational Databases: Semantics and Update Problems
$255 K for 2008‐2010
Investigators: Prof. C. Liu (Swinburne), Dr. J. Liu (UniSA), Prof. J. Yu (Chinese U. HK, China)
LP06696607 Australian Research Council Linkage Grant
An Organisation Oriented Framework for Collaborative Business Processes
$298 K for July 2006‐June 2009
Investigators: Prof. C. Liu (Swinburne), Prof. Y. Yang (Swinburne), Dr. W. Sadiq (SAP Australia)
Guest Editor, Special Issue on Querying the Data Web, World Wide Web Journal
Program Co‐chair of 3rd International Workshop on Collaborative Business Processes CBP 2009
Christopher Lueg, University of Tasmania
Publications
Paris Buttfield‐Addison, Christopher Lueg, and Jonathon Manning (2009). The Pile of Least Effort: Supporting
Lived Document Management Practices. Proceedings of the Conference on Computer‐Human Interaction
(OzCHI 2009), pp. 345‐348. Melbourne, Australia, November 23‐27, 2009
Jonathon Manning, Christopher Lueg and Paris Buttfield‐Addison (2009). Avoiding Creepy People: Social
Networks Increasing the Pleasure of Carpooling. Poster plus 2‐page description presented at the Conference on
Computer‐Human Interaction (OzCHI 2009). Melbourne, Australia, November 23‐27, 2009
Philipp Nussbaumer, Ingrid Slembek, Christopher Lueg, Ralph Mogicato and Gerhard Schwabe (2009).
Understanding Information Seeking Behaviour in Financial Advisory. Proceedings of the 11th International
Symposium for Information Science (ISI 2009), Constance, Germany, 1‐3 April 2009, to appear.
Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST)
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Panelist, Connected Tasmania: A 21st Century Digital Research Agenda. Broadband research forum organized by
Tasmania Electronic Commerce Centre (TECC) and jointly launched by the Premier of Tasmania and the Vice
Chancellor of the University of Tasmania. Tuesday 21 April 2009.
Member of the Reviewing Committee, ASIS&T 2009 the 72nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology "People Transforming Information ‐ Information Transforming People",
Vancouver BC, Canada, 5‐11 November 2009.
Wei‐Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia
Publications
Rongrong Ji, Xing Xie, Hongxun Yao, Wei‐Ying Ma: Mining city landmarks from blogs by graph modeling. ACM
Multimedia 2009: 105‐114
Xin‐Jing Wang, Mo Yu, Lei Zhang, Wei‐Ying Ma: Argo: intelligent advertising made possible from users' photos.
ACM Multimedia 2009: 957‐958
Rongrong Ji, Xing Xie, Hongxun Yao, Wei‐Ying Ma: Vocabulary hierarchy optimization for effective and
transferable retrieval. CVPR 2009: 1161‐1168
Yu Zheng, Lizhu Zhang, Xing Xie, Wei‐Ying Ma: Mining correlation between locations using human location
history. GIS 2009: 472‐475
Jiang‐Ming Yang, Rui Cai, Chunsong Wang, Hua Huang, Lei Zhang, Wei‐Ying Ma: Incorporating site‐level
knowledge for incremental crawling of web forums: a list‐wise strategy. KDD 2009: 1375‐1384
Xin‐Jing Wang, Mo Yu, Lei Zhang, Rui Cai, Wei‐Ying Ma: Argo: intelligent advertising by mining a user's interest
from his photo collections. KDD Workshop on Data Mining and Audience Intelligence for Advertising 2009: 18‐26
Yu Zheng, Yukun Chen, Xing Xie, Wei‐Ying Ma: GeoLife2.0: A Location‐Based Social Networking Service. Mobile
Data Management 2009: 357‐358
Jiang‐Ming Yang, Rui Cai, Yida Wang, Jun Zhu, Lei Zhang, Wei‐Ying Ma: Incorporating site‐level knowledge to
extract structured data from web forums. WWW 2009: 181‐190
Yu Zheng, Lizhu Zhang, Xing Xie, Wei‐Ying Ma: Mining interesting locations and travel sequences from GPS
trajectories. WWW 2009: 791‐800
Xiangye Xiao, Qiong Luo, Dan Hong, Hongbo Fu, Xing Xie, Wei‐Ying Ma: Browsing on small displays by
transforming Web pages into hierarchically structured subpages. TWEB 3(1): 4 (2009)
Aaron Quigley, The University of Tasmania
Publications
Tanzeem Choudhury, Aaron J. Quigley, Thomas Strang, Koji Suginuma: Location and Context Awareness, 4th
International Symposium, LoCA 2009, Tokyo, Japan, May 7‐8, 2009, Proceedings Springer 2009
Ross Shannon, Aaron J. Quigley, Paddy Nixon: Time sequences. CHI Extended Abstracts 2009: 4615‐4620
Michael Farrugia, Aaron J. Quigley: Enhancing Airline Customer Relationship Management Data by Inferring Ties
between Passengers. CSE (4) 2009: 795‐800
Umar Rashid, Aaron J. Quigley: Interaction Techniques for Binding Smartphones: A Desirability Evaluation. HCI
(10) 2009: 120‐128
Emil Vassev, Mike Hinchey, Aaron J. Quigley: A Self‐adaptive Architecture for Autonomic Systems Developed
with ASSL. ICSOFT (1) 2009: 163‐168
Emil Vassev, Mike Hinchey, Aaron J. Quigley: Towards Model Checking with Java PathFinder for Autonomic
Systems Specified and Generated with ASSL. ICSOFT (1) 2009: 251‐256
Adrian K. Clear, Ross Shannon, Thomas Holland, Aaron J. Quigley, Simon A. Dobson, Paddy Nixon: Situvis: A
Visual Tool for Modeling a User's Behaviour Patterns in a Pervasive Environment. Pervasive 2009: 327‐341
Neil Cowzer, Aaron J. Quigley: GeoIGM: A Location‐Aware IGM Platform. WETICE 2009: 105‐110
Aaron J. Quigley, Sriram Subramanian, Shahram Izadi: Special issue on interaction with coupled and public
displays. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 13(8): 549‐550 (2009)
Lucia Terrenghi, Aaron J. Quigley, Alan J. Dix: A taxonomy for and analysis of multi‐person‐display ecosystems.
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 13(8): 583‐598 (2009)
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Mark Ragan, The University of Queensland
Publications
Shin, C. J., Davis, M. J. and Ragan, M. A. (2009) Towards the mammalian interactome: Inference of a core
mammalian interaction set in mouse. Proteomics, 9 23: 5256‐5266.
Chan, C. X., Beiko, R. G. and Ragan, M. A. (2009) Lateral transfer of genes and gene fragments in prokaryotes.
Genome Biology and Evolution, 2009:429 x: 429‐438.
Ragan, M. A. (2009) Trees and networks before and after Darwin. Biology Direct, 4 : 43‐43.
Ragan, M. A. and Beiko, R. G. (2009) Lateral genetic transfer: open issues. Philosophical Transactions of The
Royal Society B‐Biological Sciences, 364 1527: 2241‐2251.
Ragan, M. A., McInerney, J. O. and Lake, J. A. (2009) The network of life: genome beginnings and evolution.
Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B‐Biological Sciences, 364 1527: 2169‐2175.
Kassahn, K. S., Dang, V. T., Wilkins, S. J., Perkins, A. C. and Ragan, M. A. (2009) Evolution of gene function and
regulatory control after whole‐genome duplication: Comparative analyses in vertebrates. Genome Research, 19
8: 1404‐1418.
McComb, T, Cairncross, O, Noske, A. B., Wood, D. L. A., Marsh, B. J. and Ragan, M. A. (2009) Illoura (TM): a
software tool for analysis, visualization and semantic querying of cellular and other spatial biological data.
Bioinformatics, 25 9: 1208‐1210.
Ragan, C, Cloonan, N, Grimmond, S. M., Zuker, M and Ragan, M. A. (2009) Transcriptome‐wide prediction of
miRNA targets in human and mouse using FASTH. PLOS ONE, 4 5: e5745‐e5745.
Esteban‐Marcos, A, Darling, A. E. and Ragan, M. A. (2009) Seevolution: visualizing chromosome evolution.
Chan, Cheong Xin, Darling, A. E, Beiko, R. G and Ragan, M. A (2009) Are protein domains modules of lateral
genetic transfer?. PLoS One, 4 2: 1‐8.
Treangen, T. J., Darling, A. E., Achaz. G., Ragan, M. A., Messequer, X. and Rocha, E. P. (2009) A novel heuristic for
local multiple alignment of interspersed DNA repeats. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and
Shin, Chang Jin, Wong, S, Davis, M. J. and Ragan, M. A. (2009) Protein‐protein interaction as a predictor of
subcellular location. BMC SYSTEMS BIOLOGY, 3 28: x‐x.
Beiko, R.G. and Ragan, M. A. (2009). Untangling hybrid phylogenetic signals: horizontal transfer and artifacts of
phylogenetic reconstruction. In Gogarten, M. B. (Ed.), Horizontal gene transfer: genomes in Flux (pp. 241‐256)
United States Of America: Humana Press.
Grants
2003 ‐ 2010 ARC Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics Funding Bodies: Australian Research Council
University of Queensland Total Funding: $ 9,131,168
2006 ‐ 2010 Queensland Facility for Advanced Bioinformatics (QFAB) Researchers: Ragan, M. A. Hansen, D.
Pailthorpe, B. Maeder, A. J. Barker, J. R. Funding Bodies: Queensland Government Smart State National and
International Research Alliances Program Queensland University of Technology Total Funding: $ 2,172,500
2007 ‐ 2009 Australian participation in EU‐FP6 project Quasi‐Opportunistic Supercomputing for Complex
Systems in Grid Environments Researchers: Ragan, M. A. Funding Bodies: DEST International Science Linkages/
Competitive Grants Total Funding: $ 317,881
Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology
Publications
Configurable Reference Modeling Languages. In A. Bajaj, S. Wrycza (eds.): Systems Analysis and Design for
Advanced Modeling Methods: Best Practices. IGI Global, Hershey, Pennsylvania, pp. 180‐201, 2009, (with J.
Recker, W. van der Aalst, M. Jansen‐Vullers and A. Dreiling)
Business Process Modelling – A Comparative Analysis. Journal of the Association of the AIS (JAIS), Vol. 10, No. 4,
2009, pp. 333‐363 (with J. Recker, M. Indulska and P. Green).
Teaching Business Process Modelling: Experiences and Recommendations, Communications of the AIS (CAIS),
Vol. 25, No. 32, 2009, pp. 379‐394.
Identification and Analysis of Business and Software Services – A Consolidated Approach. IEEE Transactions on
Services Computing (with Th. Kohlborn, A. Kohlhaus and T. Chan), Vol. 2, No. 1, 2009, pp. 1‐15.
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Model Driven Service Engineering in Home Telecare. Electronic Journal of Health Informatics. Vol. 3, 2008 (with
C. Flender).
Quality Management in Service Ecosystems. Information Systems and e‐Business Management, Vol. 7, No. 2,
March 2009, pp. 199‐221 (with Chr. Riedl, T. Boehmann and H. Krcmar)
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Requirements of a Process Laboratory for the Operational Control of Service Processes. Proceedings of the 20
Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2009). Melbourne, 2‐4 December 2009 (with J.
Moormann, M. Leyer and D. Heckl).
Context Change Archetypes: Understanding the Impact of Context Change on Business Processes. Proceedings
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of the 20 Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2009). Melbourne, 2‐4 December 2009 (with K.
Ploesser, C. Janiesch and J. Recker,).
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Conceptualisation and Facilitation of SOA Governance. Proceedings of the 20 Australasian Conference on
Information Systems (ACIS 2009). Melbourne, 2‐4 December 2009 (with A. Korthaus and C. Janiesch).
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Towards a Service Portfolio Management Framework. Proceedings of the 20 Australasian Conference on
Information Systems (ACIS 2009). Melbourne, 2‐4 December 2009 (with E. Fielt, A. Korthaus and T. Kohlborn).
th
Using a Smartphone Application for Customer‐Centric Banking. Proceedings of the 20 Australasian Conference
on Information Systems (ACIS 2009). Melbourne, 2‐4 December 2009 (with J. Moormann and A. Dohmen).
th
Empirical Evaluation of a Service Analysis and Design Methodology. Proceedings of the 20 Australasian
Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2009). Melbourne, 2‐4 December 2009 (with J. Couzens, A. Korthaus
and T. Kohlborn).
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Process Modelling: Perceived Benefits. Proceedings of the 28 International Conference on Conceptual
Modelling (ER 2009). Gramado, Brazil, 9‐12 November 2009.
Process Modelling: Current Issues and Future Challenges. Proceedings of the 21 International Conference on
Advanced Information Systems (CAiSE 2009), Amsterdam, 10‐12 June 2009 (with J. Recker, M. Indulska and P.
Green).
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Service Analysis – A Critical Assessment of the State of the Art. Proceedings of the 17 European Conference on
Information Systems (ECIS 2009), Varona, Italy, 8‐10 June 2009 (with Th. Kohlborn, A. Korthaus and T. Chan).
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Influences of Six Sigma Embracement and Abondenment. Proceedings of the 17 European Conference on
Information Systems (ECIS 2009), Varona, Italy, 8‐10 June 2009 (with D. Heckl and W. Bandara).
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Pockets of Creativity in Business Processes. Proceedings of the 17 European Conference on Information
Systems (ECIS 2009), Varona, Italy, 8‐10 June 2009 (with S. Seidel, F. Mueller‐Wienbergen and M. Karow)
Grants
Statewide Trauma Clinical Network Grant "A Reference Process Model for Multi‐Trauma Patients" ($ 80,000),
2008‐2010.
CRC Smart Services: Responsible for the Project "Business Service Management", 2007‐2012
ARC Linkage "Service Ecosystems for Collaborative Business Process Improvement: (258,920 AUD from ARC and
120,000 AUD each from SAP and from Qld Government (2006‐2009).
ARC Linkage “Airports of the Future”, ($2.4 mio from the ARC and $1.9 mio from industry partners) (2009‐2013).
ARC Centre of Excellence in Cultural and Media Industries. Director: Stuart Cunningham, Queensland University
of Technology (7,000,000 AUD) (2005‐2010)
Editor of the IEEE Transaction on Automation Science and Engineering Journal Special Issue on Scientific
Workflow Management and Applications (with J. Chen, W. van der Aalst, R. Buyya and B. Ludaescher). March
2009.
Editor of the Information Systems and e‐Business Management Special Issue on Business Process
Management (with Michael zur Muehlen and Marta Indulska). 2009
Associate Editor, International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems (Editor: A. Gunasekaran) (since
5/2004)
Member of the Editorial Board, Pacific Asia Journal of the Association of Information Systems
(Editor in Chief: Ting‐Peng Liang) (since 6/2009)
BPM Training for Shared Service Agency (May 2009)
BPM training for IP Australia (May 2009)
BPM Training for Australian Federal Police (May/June 2009)
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Shazia Sadiq, The University of Queensland
Publications
Ke Deng, Xiaofang Zhou, Hen Tao Shen, Shazia Sadiq, Xue Li. Instance Optimal Query Processing in Spatial
Networks. VLDB Journal, 18(3):675‐693, 2009
Lu, R., Sadiq, S. & Governatori, G. On Managing Business Processes Variants. Data and Knowledge Engineering
Journal. Volume 68, Issue 7, July 2009, pp 642‐664
Barbara Weber and Shazia Sadiq and Manfred Reichert (2009) Beyond Rigidity ‐ Dynamic Process Lifecycle
Support: A Survey on Dynamic Changes in Process‐aware Information Systems. Springer, Computer Science ‐
Research and Development, Vol. 23, No. 2.
Guido Governatori & Shazia Sadiq. The Journey to Business Process Compliance. In Jorge Cardoso and Wil van
der Aalst (Editors) Handbook of Research on BPM, IGI Global, 2009.
Syed Norris Syed Abdullah, Marta Indulska, Shazia Sadiq. A Study of Compliance Management in Information
Systems Research. In S. Newell, E. Whitley, N. Pouloudi, J. Wareham and L. Mathiassen, Proceeding of the 17th
European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2009). The 17th European Conference on Information
Systems, Verona, Italy (), 8‐10 June, 2009.
Ke Deng, Hu Xu, Shazia Sadiq, Yansheng Lu, Gabriel Pui Cheong Fung, Heng Tao Shen. Processing Group Nearest
Group Query. IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2009. pp.1144‐1147
A. TW, S. Sadiq, and Xue Li. Learning From Experience: Can e‐Learning Technology be Used as a Vehicle? 4th
International Conference in E‐Learning (ICEL 2009), Toronto, Canada, pp.32‐39, 2009.
Ruopeng Lu, Shazia Sadiq, Guido Governatori, Xiaoping Yang: Defining Adaptation Constraints for Business
Process Variants. BIS 2009, Poznan, Poland. April 2009.
Naiem Khodabandhloo Yeganeh, Shazia Sadiq, K. Deng, X. Zhou: Data Quality Aware Queries in Collaborative
Information Systems. APWeb/WAIM 2009: 39‐50
Grants
ARC Linkage Grant (2008‐2010) Enhancement, Integration and Access Services for Smarter, Collaborative and
Adaptive Whole‐of‐Water‐Cycle Management. Industry Partner: Southeast Queensland Healthy Waterways
Partnership
ARC Discovery Grant (2007 ‐ 2009) Approaching the Limits of Data Quality Management
Go8 Australia Germany Collaborative Scheme (2009 ‐ 2010) Dynamically Composed Compliance Processes using
Semantic Web Services
ALTC Priority Projects (2008 ‐ 2009) Service Science Management and Engineering Teaching and Learning
Review board (European Chapter), Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal
Organizing Chair, 14th Int Conf on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA2009
Graeme Shanks, The University of Melbourne
Publications
Rosanne Price, Graeme G. Shanks: The Effect of Data Quality Tag Values and Usable Data Quality Tags on
Decision‐Making. DASFAA Workshops 2009: 167‐181
LeMai Nguyen, Graeme G. Shanks: A framework for understanding creativity in requirements engineering.
Information & Software Technology 51(3): 655‐662 (2009)
A Framework for Understanding Customer Relationship Management System Benefits, 2009, Communications
of the Association of Information Systems, 263‐288, G Shanks, I J Jagielska, M Jayaganesh
Identity crisis: user perspectives on multiplicity and control in federated identity management, 2009, Behaviour
& Information Technology, C Satchell, G Shanks, S Howard
A Cultural Analysis of Business Process Management Governance in Indian Organizations, 2009, Proc 17th
European Conf on Information Systems, M Jayagansh, S Shanks
Data Quality Tags and Decision‐making: A Cognitive Process Tracing Study, 2009, Proc 20th Aus Con on
Information Systems, pp. 64‐73, R Price, G Shanks
Finding the other 5%: Understanding the role of social networking technology in building personal communities
for young adults with cancer, 2009, Proc European Computer Supported Cooperative Work, ECSCW 2009,
pp.105‐122, Springer, S NM Ashkanasy, F Veteere, H Davis, G Shanks
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IOS project motivation as a determinant of project activities and business capabilities, 2009, Proc European Conf
on Information Sytems, S Mith, G Shanks, M Rahim, R Johnston

Grants

2010‐2014, The Impact of Strategy on Business Analytics Success. Funded by Australian Research Council (ARC)
(#DP1094005). Awarded to Shanks, Seddon, Reynolds and Willcocks.
2009‐11, Competing with Business Analytics. Funded by Australian Research Council (ARC) (#DP0987003).
Awarded to Seddon, Shanks, Scheepers and Reynolds.


Editorships
International Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining
Pacific Asia Journal of the Association for Information Systems
Journal of Knowledge Management Research and Practice
Journal of Database Management

Dawei Song, The Robert Gordon University, UK
Publications
Hou, Y., Zhang, P., Yan, T., Li, W. and Song, D. (2009). Beyond Redundancies: A Metric‐Invariant Method for
Unsupervised Feature Selection. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE). March 2009. [ISI
5‐year Impact Factor: 3.585]
Zhu, J., Huang, X., Song, D., Roger, S. (2009) Integrating Multiple Document Features in Language Models for
Expert Finding. Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS) journal. March 2009.
Zhu, J., Song, D., Roger, S. (2009) Integrating Multiple Windows and Document Features for Expert Search.
Journal of American Society for Information Science and Technology. Vol. 60(4), pp. 694‐715
Lau, R.Y.K, Song, D., Li, Y., Cheung, T., Hao, J. (2009) Towards A Fuzzy Domain Ontology Extraction Method for
Adaptive e‐Learning. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Vol. 21(6), pp. 800‐813.
Azzopardi, L., Kazai, G., Robertson, S.E, Rueger, S.M., Shokouhi, M., Song, D., Yilmaz E. (Eds.): Advances in
Information Retrieval Theory ‐ Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Theory of Information
Retrieval (ICTIR 2009), Cambridge, UK, September 10‐12, 2009, LNCS 5766, Springer 2009, ISBN 978‐3‐642‐
04416‐8.
Lee, G.G.; Song, D.; Lin, C.‐Y.; Aizawa, A.; Kuriyama, K.; Yoshioka, M.; Sakai, T. (Eds.): Information Retrieval
Technology – Proceedings of 5th Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS 2009), Sapporo, Japan, October 21‐
23, 2009, LNCS 5839, Springer 2009, ISBN: 978‐3‐642‐04768‐8.
Zhang, P., Hou, Y., Song, D. (2009) Approximating True Relevance Distribution from a Mixture Model Based on
Irrelevance Data. The 32nd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR’2009), pp 107‐114, 19‐23 July 2009, Boston,
USA.
Dignum, S., Kim, Y., Kruschwitz, U., Song, D., Fasli, M., De Roeck, A. (2009b) Moving towards Adaptive Search.
Workshop on Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries (AT4DL’2009), 8 September 2009, Trento, Italy.
Dignum, S., Kim, Y., Kruschwitz, U., Song, D., Fasli, M., De Roeck, A. (2009a) Using Domain Models for Context‐
Rich User Logging. ACM SIGIR’2009 Workshop on Understanding the Users. 24 July 2009, Boston, USA.
Bruza, P.D., Kitto, K., Ramm, B.J., Sitbon, L., Song, D. (2009) Concept Combination, Emergence and Abduction.
Model‐Based Reasoning (MBR’2009). Campinas, Brazil, December 17‐19, 2009.
Hoenkamp, E., Bruza, P.D., Huang, Q., Song, D. (2009). An Effective Approach to Verbose Queries Using a Limited
nd
Dependencies Language Model. The 2 International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR’2009),
LNCS 5766, pp. 116‐127. 10‐12 September 2009, Cambridge, UK.
Liu, H., Uren, V., Song, D. and Rueger, S. (2009) A Four‐factor User Interaction Model for Content‐Based Image
nd
Retrieval. The 2 International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR’2009), LNCS 5766, pp. 297‐
304. 10‐12 September 2009, Cambridge, UK. 160K
Liu, H., Zagorac, S., Uren, V., Song, D., Rueger, S. (2009) Enabling Effective User Interactions in Content‐based
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Image Retrieval. The 5 Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS’2009). LNCS 5839, pp. 265‐276, 21‐23
October 2009, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. 28. Milne, P., Wiratunga, N., Lothian, R., and Song, D. (2009).
Reuse of Search Experience for Resource Transformation. Reasoning from Experiences on the Web
(WebCBR’2009) Workshop, the 8th International Conference on Case Based Reasoning (ICCBR’2009). Accepted.
21 July 2009, Seattle, USA.
Hou, Y., and Song, D. (2009) Characterizing Pure High‐order Entanglements in Lexical Semantic Spaces via
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Information Geometry. The 3 International Symposium on Quantum Interaction (QI’2009), LNCS 5494, pp. 237‐
250. March 2009, Saarbruecken, Germany.
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Huang, Z., Shen, H.T., Song, D., Li, X., and Rueger, S. (2009) Dimension‐specific Search for Multimedia Retrieval.
th
The 14 International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA’2009), LNCS 5463,
pp. 693‐698. April 2009, Brisbane, Australia.
Grants
Hybrid User Profiling and Adaptation for Personalised Search in Social Media Environment. Northern Research
Partnership PhD studentship project, 2009‐2012.
Automatic Adaptation of Knowledge Structures for Assisted Information Seeking (AutoAdapt). EPSRC
(EP/F035705/1), 2008‐2011, GBP 327,685. With Anne De Roeck (Co‐Investigator, OU). In partnership with
University of Essex (Udo Kruschwitz). Total funding of the project: GBP 609K.
Towards Context‐Sensitive Information Retrieval Based on Quantum Theory: With Applications to Cross‐media
Search and Structured Document Access (Renaissance). EPSRC (EP/F014708/1), 2008‐2011, GBP 323,703. With
Stefan Roger (Co‐Investigator, OU). In partnership with University of Glasgow (Mounia Lalmas and Keith van
Rijsbergen). Total funding of the project: GBP 961,805.
Learning User Preferences from Collective User Behaviour in Content‐based Image Search. EPSRC CASE
(Cooperative Awards in Science and Engineering) Program and Yahoo! Research Barcelona, 11/2007‐5/2011,
GBP 83,092.
Platform for Search of Audio‐visual Resources across Online Spaces (PHAROS). Integrated Project, European
Union Sixth Framework Programme, Priority IST Call 6, #045035,Euro 8.5M (total), GBP 309K (for the Open
University), 2007‐2009. With Stefan Roger (PI) and Zdenek Zdrahal (Co‐I).
Editorial Board, International Journal of Computer Processing Of Languages (IJCPOL)
Secretary, Information Retrieval Specialist Group of BCS (BCS‐IRSG)
Steering Committee Member and Programme Committee Co‐chair of the 2009 Asia Information Retrieval
Symposium (AIRS’2009)
Programme Committee Co‐chair of the Second International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval
(ICTIR’2009)
Bala Srinivasan, Monash University
Publications
Kefeng Xuan, Geng Zhao, David Taniar, Bala Srinivasan, Maytham Safar, Marina L. Gavrilova: Network Voronoi
Diagram Based Range Search. AINA 2009: 741‐748 [Highly command award]
Samar Zutshi, Campbell Wilson, Bala Srinivasan: Proto‐reduct Fusion Based Relevance Feedback in CBIR. ICAPR
2009: 121‐124
Geng Zhao, Kefeng Xuan, David Taniar, Maytham Safar, Marina L. Gavrilova, Bala Srinivasan: Multiple Object
Types KNN Search Using Network Voronoi Diagram. ICCSA (2) 2009: 819‐834
Agustinus Borgy Waluyo, David Taniar, J. Wenny Rahayu, Bala Srinivasan: Mobile service oriented architectures
for NN‐queries. J. Network and Computer Applications 32(2): 434‐447 (2009)
Markus Stumptner, The University of South Australia
Publications
Rajesh K. Thiagarajan, Wolfgang Mayer, Markus Stumptner: Semantic Service Discovery by Consistency‐Based
Matchmaking. APWeb/WAIM 2009: 492‐505
Peter Killisperger, Georg Peters, Markus Stumptner, Thomas Stückl: Method Manual based Process Generation
and Validation. ICEIS (3) 2009: 256‐261
Rajesh K. Thiagarajan, Wolfgang Mayer, Markus Stumptner: A Generative Framework for Service Process
Composition. ICSOC/ServiceWave 2009: 358‐363
Peter Killisperger, Markus Stumptner, Georg Peters, Georg Grossmann, Thomas Stückl: Meta Model Based
Architecture for Software Process Instantiation. ICSP 2009: 63‐74
Wolfgang Mayer, Rajesh K. Thiagarajan, Markus Stumptner: Service Composition as Generative Constraint
Satisfaction. ICWS 2009: 888‐895
Rui Abreu, Wolfgang Mayer, Markus Stumptner, Arjan J. C. van Gemund: Refining spectrum‐based fault
localization rankings. SAC 2009: 409‐414
Member, ACM, IEEE CS, ACS Steering Committee for AI and Expert Systems.
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Area Editor for Model‐Based Reasoning, AI Communications. Editorial Board member, AI for Engineering Design,
Analysis, and Manufacturing (AI EDAM).
Co‐Chair and Organiser for 2009 Workshop on Configuration (held at the Int'l Joint Conf. for Artificial
Intelligence, Pasadena, July 2009)
Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University
Publications
Reihaneh Safavi‐Naini, Vijay Varadharajan, Wanqing Li, Willy Susilo, Udaya Kiran Tupakula,: Proceedings of the
2009 ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security, ASIACCS 2009, Sydney,
Australia, March 10‐12, 2009 ACM 2009
Aarthi Nagarajan, Vijay Varadharajan, Michael Hitchens: ALOPA: Authorization Logic for Property Attestation in
Trusted Platforms. ATC 2009: 134‐148
Lei Li, Yan Wang, Vijay Varadharajan: Fuzzy Regression Based Trust Prediction in Service‐Oriented Applications.
ATC 2009: 221‐235
Zaobin Gan, Juxia He, Qian Ding, Vijay Varadharajan: Trust Relationship Modelling in E‐commerce‐Based Social
Network. CIS (1) 2009: 206‐210
Rajan Shankaran, Vijay Varadharajan, Mehmet A. Orgun, Michael Hitchens: Context‐Aware Trust Management
for Peer‐to‐Peer Mobile Ad‐Hoc Networks. COMPSAC (2) 2009: 188‐193
Chun Ruan, Vijay Varadharajan: Reasoning on Weighted Delegatable Authorizations. DEXA 2009: 279‐286
Chun Ruan, Vijay Varadharajan: Trust Enhanced Authorization for Mobile Agents. EC‐Web 2009: 84‐95
Udaya Kiran Tupakula, Vijay Varadharajan, Sunil Kumar Vuppala: SBAC: Service Based Access Control.
Proceedings of 14th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, Germany,
June 2009, ICECCS 2009: 202‐209
Jianfeng Lu, Ruixuan Li, Vijay Varadharajan, Zhengding Lu, Xiaopu Ma: Secure Interoperation in Multidomain
Environments Employing UCON Policies. ISC 2009: 395‐402
Udaya Kiran Tupakula, Vijay Varadharajan, Srini Rao Pandalaneni: DoSTRACK: a system for defending against
DoS attacks. SAC 2009: 47‐53
Vijay Varadharajan: Evolution and challenges in trust and security in information system infrastructures. SIN
2009: 1‐2
Eimear Gallery, Aarthi Nagarajan, Vijay Varadharajan: A Property‐Dependent Agent Transfer Protocol. TRUST
2009: 240‐263
Vijay Varadharajan: A Note on Trust‐Enhanced Security. IEEE Security & Privacy 7(3): 57‐59 (2009)
Yan Wang, Kwei‐Jay Lin, Duncan S. Wong, Vijay Varadharajan: Trust management towards service‐oriented
applications. Service Oriented Computing and Applications 3(2): 129‐146 (2009)
V. Balakrishnan, V. Varadharajan, and U. K. Tupakula, " Trust Management in Mobile Ad hoc Networks". Book
Chapter: Handbook of Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks, Springer (London), 2009.
V. Balakrishnan, V. Varadharajan, U. K. Tupakula, and P. Lucs, "SMRTI: Secure MANET Routing with Trust
Intrigue". Accepted for Publication in the Book Mobile Intelligence: Mobile Computing and Computational
Intelligence, John Willey & Sons
Rajan Shankaran, Vijay Varadharajan, Mehmet Orgun and Michael Hitchens, “Critical Issues in Trust
Management for Mobile Ad‐Hoc Networks”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Information
Reuse and Integration 2009 (IEEE IRI 2009), USA, August 2009.
C. Ruan and V. Varadharajan, “A graph theoretic approach for authorization delegation and conflict resolution”.
In Distributed and Parallel Databases Journal, Springer: ISSN 0926‐8782.
Aarthi Nagarajan, Vijay Varadharajan, Eimear Gallery, “Property based Attestation and Trusted Computing:
Analysis and Challenges, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Network & System Security,
NSS2009.
Grants
ARC Discovery: Trust Enhanced Secure Distributed Applications (2007‐2009)
Dept of PM&C and DSD: Secure Virtualization Systems (2008‐2010)
Dept of PM&C and DSD: Security in Heterogenous Network Environment (SHINE), (2007‐2009)
Microsoft: Security and Trust in Peer to Peer Computing Systems (2006‐2011)
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Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC) , ACM Transactions on Information
and System Security, USA (2001‐2008), International Journal of Information Security (JIS), Springer, Germany.
Dept Editor, IEEE Security and Privacy
Accreditation Board Member Computer and Communication Security Reviews (CCSR), UK.
Editorial Board Member: Web Information Systems Engineering & Internet Technologies, Kluwer Academic
Publishers, Holland; International Journal of Information and Computer Security (IJICS), Inderscience Enterprises
Publishers, Geneva, Switzerland; Idea Publishing Group, Research on Information Security & Assurance
Program Co‐Chair of the ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communication Security, ACM
ASIACCS 2009. Sponsored by ARC RESEARCH NETWORKS – EII.
Rachel Webster, The University of Melbourne
Publications
Evidence for a nonuniform initial mass function in the local universe, 2009, Astrophysical Journal, 695, pp.765‐
780, G.R. Meurer, O I WONG, J.H. Kim, D.J. Hanish, T.M. Heckman, J Werk, J Bland‐Hawthorn, M.A. Dopita, M.A.
Zwaan, B Koribalski, M Seibert, D.A. Thilker, H.C. Ferguson, R WEBSTER, M.E. Putman, P.M. Knezek, M.T. Doyle,
M.J. Drinkwater, C.G. Hoopes, V.A. Kilborn, M Meyer, E.V. Ryan‐Weber, R.C. Smith, L Staveley_Smith
NOIRCAT – the Northern HIPASS Optical/IR Catalogue, 2009, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,
399, pp.2264‐2278, O I WONG, R WEBSTER, V.A. Kilborn, M WAUGH, L Staveley‐Smith
The accretion disc in the quasar SDSS J0924+0219, 2009, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 398,
pp.233‐239, D FLOYD, N F BATE, R WEBSTER
Grants
SKAMP / MWA DIGITAL SYSTEM (SMDS) Chief Investigator CSIRO, UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY 25/06/2009
Gravitational Lensing Studies of Quasars Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects
01/01/2008
MIRA WIDEFIELD ARRAY: A NEW LOW FREQUENCY TELESCOPE Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL
Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) 01/01/2008
Raymond Wong, The University of New South Wales
Publications
Van T. K. Tran, Raymond K. Wong, William K. Cheung, Jiming Liu: Mobile Information Exchange and Integration:
From Query to Application Layer. ADC 2009: 117‐126
Ryan H. Choi, Raymond K. Wong: Efficient XQuery Join Processing in Publish/Subscribe Systems. ADC 2009: 97‐
106
Alex Penev, Raymond K. Wong: Framework for timely and accurate ads on mobile devices. CIKM 2009: 1067‐
1076
Ryan H. Choi, Raymond K. Wong: Efficient Data Structure for XML Keyword Search. DASFAA 2009: 549‐554
Ryan H. Choi, Raymond K. Wong: Efficient Filtering of Branch Queries for High‐Performance XML Data Services. J.
Database Manag. 20(2): 58‐83 (2009)
Arkady Zaslavsky, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Publications
Pari Delir Haghighi, Arkady B. Zaslavsky, Shonali Krishnaswamy, Mohamed Medhat Gaber: Mobile Data Mining
for Intelligent Healthcare Support. HICSS 2009: 1‐10
Kutila Gunasekera, Seng Wai Loke, Arkady B. Zaslavsky, Shonali Krishnaswamy: Runtime Adaptation of
Multiagent Systems for Ubiquitous Environments. IAT 2009: 486‐490
Kutila Gunasekera, Arkady B. Zaslavsky, Shonali Krishnaswamy, Seng Wai Loke: Component Based Approach for
Composing Adaptive Mobile Agents. KES‐AMSTA 2009: 90‐99
Waskitho Wibisono, Sea Ling, Arkady B. Zaslavsky: A Context Middleware Framework for Managing Context in
Mobile Ad Hoc Network Environment. Mobile Data Management 2009: 299‐304
Panraphee Raphiphan, Arkady B. Zaslavsky, Passakon Prathombutr, Phayung Meesad: Context Aware Traffic
Congestion Estimation to Compensate Intermittently Available Mobile Sensors. Mobile Data Management 2009:
405‐410
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Andreas Åhlund, Karan Mitra, Dan Johansson, Christer Åhlund, Arkady B. Zaslavsky: Context‐aware application
mobility support in pervasive computing environments. Mobility Conference 2009
Prem Prakash Jayaraman, Arkady B. Zaslavsky, Jerker Delsing: On‐the‐Fly Situation Composition within Smart
Spaces. NEW2AN 2009: 52‐65
Andrey Boytsov, Arkady B. Zaslavsky, Kåre Synnes: Extending Context Spaces Theory by Predicting Run‐Time
Context. NEW2AN 2009: 8‐21
Pari Delir Haghighi, Arkady B. Zaslavsky, Shonali Krishnaswamy, Mohamed Medhat Gaber, Seng Wai Loke:
Context‐aware adaptive data stream mining. Intell. Data Anal. 13(3): 423‐434 (2009)
Minjie Zhang, University of Wollongong
Publications
Takayuki Ito, Minjie Zhang, Valentin Robu, Shaheen Fatima and Tokuro Matsuo, Advances in Agent‐Based
Complex Automated Negotiations. Book series in Studies of Computational Intelligence. Vol. 233, Springer, 2009.
Fenghui Ren, Minjie Zhang and Kwang Mong Sim, Adaptive Conceding Strategies for Automated Trading Agents
in Dynamic, Open Markets. Decision Support Systems, Elsevier, Vol. 46, No 3, 704‐716, 2009.
Fenghui Ren and Minjie Zhang, Prediction of Partners' Behaviours in Agent n egotiation under Open and
Dynamic Environments. International Transaction on Sys tems Science and Applications, Vol. 4, No 4, pp. 295‐
304, 2009.
Quan Bai, Fenhui Ren, Minjie Zhang and John Fulcher, Chapter 8: CPN‐Based State Analysis and Prediction for
Multi‐agent Scheduling and Planning. In Advances in Agent‐Based Complex Automated Negotiations, Studies in
Computational Intelligence, Springer, Vol 233, pp. 161‐176, 2009.
Quan Bai, Minjie Zhang and Kwang Mong Sim, Flexible negotiation modeling by Using Colored petri Nets. Journal
of Information Research, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp1‐16, 2009.
Minjie Zhang, Quan Bai, Febghui Ren and John Fulcher, Collaborative Agents for Complex Problems Solving. In
Computational Intelligence: Collaboration, Fusion and Emergence, Christine L. Mumford and Lakhmi C. Jain
(Eds.), Springer, Part IV: Muiti‐agent Systems, pp. 361‐399, 2009.
Fenghui Ren, Minjie Zhang, Chunyan Miao and Zhiqi Shen, A Market‐based Multi‐issue Negotiation Model
Considering Multiple Preference in Dynamic E‐marketplaces, PRIMA2009, Nagoya, Japan, pp. 1‐16, 2009. (The
Best Student Paper Award).
Dayong Ye, Quan Bai, Minjie Zhang, Khin Than Win, and Zhiqi Shen, An Efficient Task Allocation Protocol for P2P
Multiagent Systems, IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications
(ISPA 2009), Chengdu, China, pp.11‐18, 2009.
Shaojie Yuan, Quan Bai, Minjie Zhang and Khin Than Win, Discovery of Core‐Nodes in Event‐Based Social
Networks. In the proceedings of Sixth International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery,
Tianjin, China, pp. 430‐434, 2009.
Qi Zhang, Yi Mu, Minjie Zhang, and Robert H. Dang, Secure Mobile Agents with Designated Hosts, The 2009
International Conference on Network and System Security, IEEE, Gold Coast, Australia, pp. 286‐293, 2009.
Qi Zhang, Yi Mu, Minjie Zhang, Robert H. Deng, Secure Mobile Agents with Controlled Resource, Journal of
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Wiley (accepted, 6 November, 2009)
Grants
K. M. Sim and M. Zhang, ``Relaxed‐criteria concurrent SLA Negotiations for Bolstering Dynamic Provisioning of
Personalized Cloud Resources", Global Research Network Program (GRNP), funded by the Korea National
Research Foundation, US$77,513 per year, August 1, 2009 ‐ July 31, 2012.
J. Fulcher and M. Zhang, “The Population of an Agent‐Based Simulation from Transactional Data”, Phase 4,
Commonwealth Attorney General's Department, Australia, $70,000, 2009.
M. Zhang, J. Fulcher, M. Hagenbuchner, D. Sutanto and S. Lillioja, ``A multi‐agent environment for research and
applications in open and distributed domains", RIBG Grant, $34,267, University of Wollongong, 2009.
Program chair and organizer with Prof. Ito (Nagoya Institute of Science and Technology) for the International
Workshop on Agent‐based Complex Automated Negotiations (ACAN 2009) under AAMAS2009, May 2009,
Budapest, Hungary.
Industry Session Chair and organization committee member for the International Conference on Principle and
Practice on Multiagent Systems (PRIMA 2009), Nagoya, Japan.
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Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University
Publications
Haiyang Sun, Jian Yang, Xin Wang, Yanchun Zhang: A Verification Mechanism for Secured Message Processing in
Business Collaboration. APWeb/WAIM 2009: 480‐491
Yanan Hao, Jinli Cao, Yanchun Zhang: Efficient IR‐Style Search over Web Services. CAiSE 2009: 305‐318
Min Li, Xiaoxun Sun, Hua Wang, Yanchun Zhang: Optimal Privacy‐Aware Path in Hippocratic Databases. DASFAA
2009: 441‐455
Jingyuan Zhang, Hao Shi, Yanchun Zhang: Self‐Organizing Map Methodology and Google Maps Services for
Geographical Epidemiology Mapping. DICTA 2009: 229‐235
Hao Shi, Jingyuan Zhang, Yanchun Zhang: New WebEpi Technologies for Epidemiology Data Geo‐Visualization
Mashups. MSV 2009: 36‐41
Jingyuan Zhang, Hao Shi, Yanchun Zhang: Geo‐Mashups Automation for Web‐based Epidemiological Reporting
System. MSV 2009: 56‐61
Lin Li, Guandong Xu, Yanchun Zhang, Masaru Kitsuregawa: Enhancing Web Search by Aggregating Results of
Related Web Queries. WISE 2009: 203‐217
Yanchun Zhang, Guandong Xu: Singular Value Decomposition. Encyclopedia of Database Systems 2009: 2657‐
2658
Yanchun Zhang, Guandong Xu: On web communities mining and recommendation. Concurrency and
Computation: Practice and Experience 21(5): 561‐582 (2009)
Jaree Thongkam, Guandong Xu, Yanchun Zhang, Fuchun Huang: Toward breast cancer survivability prediction
models through improving training space. Expert Syst. Appl. 36(10): 12200‐12209 (2009)
Hua Wang, Yanchun Zhang, Jinli Cao: Effective Collaboration with Information Sharing in Virtual Universities.
IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 21(6): 840‐853 (2009)
Xun Yi, Yanchun Zhang: Privacy‐preserving naive Bayes classification on distributed data via semi‐trusted mixers.
Inf. Syst. 34(3): 371‐380 (2009)
Hua Wang, Jinli Cao, Yanchun Zhang: Delegating revocations and authorizations in collaborative business
environments. Information Systems Frontiers 11(3): 293‐305 (2009)
Bailing Zhang, Yanchun Zhang, Rezaul K. Begg: Gait classification in children with cerebral palsy by Bayesian
approach. Pattern Recognition 42(4): 581‐586 (2009)
Jing. He, Yanchun Zhang, Guangyan Huang, Chaoyi Pang, A Novel Time Computation Model based on Algorithm
Complexity for High Level Data Intensive Scientific Workflow Design and Scheduling, Concurrency and
Computation: Practice and Experience, 21: 2070‐2083, 2009.
Grants
X Yi and Y Zhang, Privacy Protection in Distributed Data Mining, ARC Discovery Project, 2007‐2009. ($165,708)
Chairman, Web Information Systems Engineering Society
Co‐Founding Editor, Editor‐in‐Chief World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems, Springer
Editor, Book Series on Web Information Systems Engineering and Internet Technology, Springer
VU Representative of Member Support Committee of Victoria Partnership for Advanced Computing
Associate Editor, Journal of Applied Systems Studies, Cambridge International Science Publisher
Member of Editorial Board of International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, Information Science
Publishing.
Standing Vice President, Federation of Chinese Scholars in Australia
Chairman Australian Chinese ICT Professional Society (ACICT)
Xiaofang Zhou, The University of Queensland
Publications
H. T. Shen, J. Shao, Z. Huang and X. Zhou, "Effective and Efficient Query Processing for Video Subsequence
Identification", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 21(3):321‐334, 2009.
X. Zhou and X. Xie, Proceedings of the 2009 International Workshop on Location Based Social Networks (LBSN
2009), November 3, 2009, Seattle, Washington, USA, Proceedings ACM 2009.
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K. Xie, K. Deng and X. Zhou, "From Trajectories to Activities: A Spatio‐Temporal Join Approach", 2009
International Workshop on Location‐based Social Network, in conjunction with the 17th ACM SIGSPATIAL,
November 2009, Seattle, USA.
R. Cheng, Z. Huang, H. T. Shen and X. Zhou, "Interactive near‐duplicate video retrieval and detection", ACM
Multimedia 2009: 1001‐1002, October 2009, Beijing, China (demo).
X. Zhou, X. Zhou, L. Chen and A. Bouguettaya, N. Xiao and J. A. Taylor, "An Efficient Near‐Duplicate Video Shot
Detection Method Using Shot‐Based Interest Points", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 11(5): 879‐891. August
2009.
L. Chen, B. Cui, H. T. Shen, W. Lu, X. Zhou, "Efficient Information Retrieval in Mobile Peer‐to‐Peer
Networks", CIKM 2009, 2‐6 November 2009, Hong Kong, China.
K. Liu, Q. Chen, K. Deng, Z. Ding, M. Li and X. Zhou, "MOIR/MT: Monitoring Large‐scale Traffic of Road Network
in Real Time", VLDB 2009. August 2009, Lyon, France (demo).
K. Deng, X. Zhou, H. T. Shen, S. Sadiq and X. Li, "Instance Optimal Query Processing in Spatial Networks", The
VLDB Journal, 18(3): 675‐693, 2009.
Z. Huang, H. T. Shen, J. Shao, X. Zhou and B. Cui, "Bounded Coordinate System Indexing for Real‐time Video Clip
Search", ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 27(3).
S. Asadi, X. Zhou and G. Yang "Using Local Popularity of Web Resources for Geo‐Ranking of Search Engine
Results", World Wide Web Journal, 12(2):149‐170.
Z. Chen, H. T. Shen, X. Zhou, J. Yu, "Monitoring Path Nearest Neighbor in Road Networks", SIGMOD 2009, June
2009, Rhode Island, USA.
H. T. Shen, S. Jiang, K.‐L. Tan, Z. Huang and X. Zhou, "Speed Up Interactive Image Retrieval", The VLDB Journal,
18(1): 329‐343. 2009.
Z. Chen, H. T. Shen, Q. Xu and X. Zhou, "Instant Advertising in Mobile Peer‐to‐Peer Networks", ICDE 2009, April
X. M. Zhou, X. Zhou and A. Bouguettaya, "A Subspace Symbolization Approach to Content‐based Video Search",
ICDE 2009, April 2009, Shanghai, China (Short).
G. Li, X. Zhou, J. Feng and J. Wang, "Progressive Top‐k Keyword Search in Relational Database", ICDE 2009, April
2009, Shanghai, China (Short).
Z. Huang, L. Wang, H. T. Shen, J. Shao, X. Zhou, "Online Near‐Duplicate Video Clip Detection and Retrieval: An
Accurate and Fast System", ICDE 2009, April 2009, Shanghai, China (Demo).
Q. Xu, H. T. Shen, Z. Chen, B. Cui, X. Zhou and Y. Dai. "Hybrid Retrieval Mechanisms in Vehicle‐based P2P
Networks". In Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS) 2009, May 2009.
Louisiana, USA.
Z. Li, X. Du, H. Liu, J. He and X. Zhou, "IRankCS: A Term‐based Innovation Ranking System for Conferences and
Scholars", APWeb 2009, Suzhou, China, April 2009.
J. Zhu, X. Zhou and G. Fung, "A Term‐based Driven Clustering Approach for Name Disambiguation", APWeb 2009,
Suzhou, China, April 2009.
N. Khodabandehloo, S. Sadiq, K. Deng and X. Zhou, "Data Quality Aware Query Processing in Collaborative
Information Systems", APWeb 2009, Suzhou, China, April 2009.
X. Zhou, "Data Quality", Communications of Chinese Computer Federation (ä¸å›½è®¡ç®—æœºå ä¼šé€šè®ˉ),
5(2):49‐51, 2009.
K. Tanaka, X. Zhou and A. Jatowt, Editors, Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Workshop on Information Credibility on
the Web (WICOW 2008). ACM 2009.
Q. Li, L. Feng, J. Pei, S. X. Wang, X. Zhou and Q. Zhu, editors, "Advances in Data and Web Management",
Proceedings of APWeb/WAIM 2009, LNCS 5446, Springer, 2009.
X. Zhou, H. Yokota, K. Deng and Q. Liu, editors, "Database Systems for Advanced Applications", Proceedings of
DASFAA 2009, LNCS 5463, Springer, 2009.
C.‐Y. Chan, S. Chawla, S. Sadiq, X. Zhou and V. Pudi, editors, "Data Quality and High‐Dimensional Data Analysis",
Proceedings of DASFAA 2008 Workshops. World Scientific 2009.
Grants
2009‐2011, Chief Investigator, Analyzing Uncertain Data: Probabilistic Approaches (grant#: DP0987557),
$340,000, funded by the Australian Research Council Discovery Project, with Prof Xuemin Lin.
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2008 ‐ 2010, Chief Investigator, Enhancement, Integration and Access Services for Smarter, Collaborative and
Adaptive Whole‐of‐Water‐Cycle Management (grant#: LP0882957), $360K, funded by the Australian Research
Council Linkage Project (industry partner: Southeast Queensland Healthy Waterways). With Prof Jane Hunter,
Prof Yanchun Zhang, Dr Shazia Sadiq and Dr Eva Abal.
2008 ‐ 2009, Chief Investigator, Query Feedback Based Integration of Distributed Scientific Data Sources, $189K,
funded by CSIRO Flagship Program, with Kerry Taylor.
2008 ‐ 2010, Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics (ACB), $3.3 million, extension and
upgrade to ARC Centre for Bioinformatics, funded by the Australian Research Council, with Prof Mark Ragan and
others.
2009, Mining Location Association Patterns Between Web Queries and Documents, funded by Microsoft
Research Asia (Internet Services Award).
2009 ‐ 2013. Managing Data Quality in Next Generation Information Information Infrastructure, $640,000, UQ
Vice Chancellor's Strategic Fund.
2008 ‐ 2009, Data Quality in Web Information Systems, Â¥60,000 (Chinese Yuan), funded by the Open Research
Foundation of the National Key Lab for Novel Software Technology, hosted by Nanjing University, China.
Editorial Board Member
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
World Wide Web Journal (published by Springer)
Information Processng Letters (published by Elservier)
WISE Book Series, published by Springer
Vice Program Committee Chair, The 25th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2009), March
General Chair, The Joint Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWeb) and Web Age Information Management (WAIM)
Conference, Suzhou, China, 1‐3 April, 2009.
Albert Y. Zomaya, Sydney University
Publications
Landfeldt, B., Wu, P., Zomaya, A.Y., 2009, “Mobility Management in Wireless Mesh Networks,” in the
Encyclopedia of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, edited by D.P. Agrawal and B. Xie, pp. 587–600, World
Scientific Publishing,Singapore.
Ferm, T., and Zomaya, A.Y., 2009, “A Structured Tabu Search Approach for Scheduling in Parallel Computing
Systems,” in The Handbook of Research on Scalable Computing Technologies, edited by K.–C. Li, C.–H. Hsu, L.T.
Yang, J. Dongarra and H. Zima, pp. 354–377 (Chapter 16), IGI Global, Hershey, USA.
Zia, T.A., and Zomaya, A.Y., 2009, “Security Issues and Countermeasures in Wireless Sensor Networks,” in
Algorithms and Protocols for Wireless, Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, edited by A. Boukerche, pp. 479–
502 (Chapter 16), Wiley, New Jersey.
Lee, Y. –C. and Zomaya, A.Y, 2009, “On Effective Slack Reclamation in Task Scheduling for Energy Reduction,”
Journal of Information Processing Systems, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 175–186.
Yoo, P.D., Zhou, B.B., and Zomaya, A.Y., 2009, “A Modular Kernel Approach for Integrative Analysis of Protein
Domain Boundaries,” BMC Genomics, 10(Suppl 3):S21.
Yang, P., Xu, L., Zhou, B.B., Zhang, Z. and Zomaya, A.Y., 2009, “A Particle Swarm Based Hybrid System for
Imbalanced Medical Data Sampling,” BMC Genomics, 10(Suppl 3):S34.
Taheri, J. and Zomaya, A.Y., 2009, “A Simulation Tool for Mobility Management Experiments,” International
Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 360–379.
Khushaba, R.N., Al–Sukker, A., Al–Ani, A., Al–Jumaily, A. and Zomaya, A.Y., 2009, “A Novel Swarm based Feature
Selection Algorithm in Multifunction Myoelectric Control,” Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, Vol. 20, pp.
175–185.
Piraveenan, M., Prokopenko, M. and Zomaya, A.Y., 2009, “Local Assortativity and Growth of Internet,” European
Physical Journal B, Vol. 70, pp. 275–285.
Taheri, J., and Zomaya, A.Y., 2009, “RBT–GA: A Novel Metaheuristic for Solving the Multiple Sequence Alignment
Problem,” BMC Genomics, Vol. 10, Suppl. 1, S10.
Imani, N., Sarbazi–Azad, H., Zomaya, A.Y., and Moinzadeh, M., 2009, “Detecting Threats in Star Graphs,” IEEE
Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 474–483.
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Wang, C., Zhou, B.B., and Zomaya, A.Y., 2009, “A Decentralized Method for Scaling up Genome Similarity Search
Service,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 303–315.
Sikder, A.R. and Zomaya, A.Y., 2009, “Analysis of Protein Phosphorylation Site Predictors with an Independent
Dataset,” International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 20–37.
Elghirani, A., Subrata, R., and Zomaya, A.Y., 2009, “Intelligent Scheduling and Replication: A Synergistic
Approach,” Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 357–376.
Piraveenan, M., Prokopenko, M. and Zomaya, A.Y., 2009, “Assortativeness and Information Transfer in Scale–
Free Networks,” European Physical Journal B, Vol. 67, pp. 291–300.
Lee, Y.‐C. and Zomaya, A.Y., 2009, “On the Performance of a Dual–Objective Optimization Model for Workflow
Applications on Grid Platforms,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 20, No. 9, pp. 1273–
1284.
Li, W., Zomaya, A.Y., and Al‐Jumaily, A., 2009, “Cellular Automata Based Models of Wireless Sensor Networks,”
th
in the Proceedings of the 7 ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access
(MobiWac’09), in conjunction with the Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on Modeling,
Analysis, and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, October 26–29, pp. 1–6, Tenerife, Canary Islands,
Spain. (Invited Paper)
Zomaya, A.Y., 2009, “Energy–Aware Scheduling and Resource Allocation for Large–Scale Distributed Systems,” in
th
the Proceedings of the 11 IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications
(HPCC’09), June 25–27, p. xxxv, Seoul, South Korea. (Invited Keynote Address)
Lee, Y.‐C. and Zomaya, A.Y., 2009, “Minimizing Energy Consumption for Precedence–Constrained Applications
th
Using Dynamic Voltage Scaling,” in the Proceedings of the 9 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster
Computing and the Grid, May 18–21, pp. 92–99, Shanghai, China.
Pecero, J., Trystram, D., and Zomaya, A.Y., 2009, “A New Genetic Algorithm for Scheduling for Large
th
Communication Delays,” in the Proceedings of the 15 International Euro‐Par Conference (EuroPar’09), Lecture
Notes in Computer Science Volume 5704/2009, Springer, Sips, H., Epema, D., and Lin, H.‐X. (eds.), August 25–
28, pp. 241–252, Delft, The Netherlands.
Abu Bakar, S., Taheri., and Zomaya, A.Y., 2009, “Fuzzy Systems Modeling for Protein–Protein Interaction
th
Prediction in Saccharomyces Cerevisie” in the Proceedings of the 18 World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09
International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New
Zealand and International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Anderssen, R.S., Braddock,
R.D., and Newham, L.T.H. (eds.), July 13–17, Cairns, Australia.
Lee, Y.‐C. and Zomaya, A.Y., 2009, “Interweaving Heterogeneous Metaheuristics Using Harmony Search,” in the
Proceedings of the Workshop on Nature Inspired Distributed Computing (NIDISC’09), Part of the Proceedings of
the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, May 23–29, Rome, Italy.
Taheri, J. and Zomaya, A.Y., 2009, “SSPT: Secondary Structure Prediction Triangle,” in the Proceedings of the
ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA’09), May 10–13, pp. 743–749,
Rabat, Morocco.
Moraveji, R., Sarbazi–Azad, H., and Zomaya, A.Y., 2009, “A General Methodology for Routing in Irregular
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Networks,” in the Proceedings of the 17 Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and
Network–based Processing, February 18–20, pp. 155–160, Weimar, Germany.
Grants
A.Y. Zomaya. Data and Job Scheduling for Large–Scale Distributed Systems, Australian Research Council
(Linkage–Industry Grant, Partner: Microsoft) for $150,597, $152,173, and $140,400 (2008/09–2010/11).

F. Rabhi, B. Benatallah, P. Ray, S. Jha, M. Hassan, A.Y. Zomaya, Efficient Management of Information Resources
Over Ad–Hoc Data Grids, Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST), $202,772, $150,000, $400,000,
and $80,000 (2007–2010).
Editorial Boards
Founding Co‐editor, Wiley Book Series on Nature Inspired Computing
Founding Co‐editor, Wiley Book Series on Bioinformatics
Founding Editor‐in‐Chief, Wiley Book Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing
Leadership Roles
Member, Advisory Board, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing
Honorary Advisory Board Member, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR
Labs), http://www.mirlabs.org/index.php
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Member, Fellows Evaluation Committee, IEEE Computer Society
Member, Awards Committee, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing
Member of the Board, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Technical Committee on Self‐
Organization and Complex Distributed Systems
Member of Executive Committee, IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing
General Chair, Program Chair, Vice‐Chair
General Chair of the 4th International Symposium on Intelligent Systems Techniques for Ad hoc and
Wireless Sensor Networks (IST–AWSN’09), held in conjunction with the 7th International Conference
on Advances in Mobile Computing & Multimedia (MoMM2009), December 14–16, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia, 2009.
International Co–Chair of the International Symposium on Innovations in Natural Computing (INC–
2009), December 12–13, Cochin, India, 2009.
International Co–Chair of the World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing,
December 9–11, Coimbatore, India, 2009.
General Chair of the 7th ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access
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(MobiWac 2009), held in conjunction with the 12 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Modeling,
Analysis (MSWIM’09), October 26–30, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, 2009.
General Chair of the International Workshop on Nature Inspired Distributed Computing (NIDISC’09),
May 25, Rome, Italy, 2009.

February, 2009: Panel Member, Panel on Models for Open Innovation in a Digital Economy, Voices for
Innovation Forum, Microsoft Australia, Feb. 10, 2009.

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